Hugh Neale is a Principal Engineer based in Cambridge with 11 years of experience building secure, product-focused platforms and founding cybersecurity ventures. As CEO-turned-Principal at JumpCloud after his startup Zercurity was acquired, he blends hands-on engineering with product strategy to deliver automated compliance and visibility for cloud and asset security. His background spans SecOps and large-scale analytics work in the UK Civil Service, where he managed big-data stacks (MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Storm) to extract real-time insights. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping technical solutions, he has a track record of turning complex security frameworks into measurable, operational KPIs. Quietly pragmatic, he prefers solving thorny integration and observability problems that bridge engineering, compliance, and product.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of East Anglia
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