Jacob Rickerd
Principal Security Engineer at Attentive
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Rickerd is a Principal Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building automated security tooling and leading engineering teams, currently driving security at Attentive. He built and led development of CRXcavator, an automated Chrome extension security assessment tool, and has a track record of shipping practical automation at Duo, Amazon, and the University of Michigan. Comfortable across web stacks (React, Flask, Django) and backend systems, he combines threat modeling, incident-driven engineering, and product-focused security delivery. Jacob holds highest honors in Information Assurance from Eastern Michigan University and has a history of turning research and forensics work—like memory forensics automation and honeypot data collection—into production-ready tooling.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Eastern Michigan UniversityDiploma, Diploma at Pinckney New Tech High School
English
Github Skills (51)
chrome-extension9
phishing-attacks9
aws-xray9
neo4j8
aws8
endpoint-security8
cors7
webview7
terraform-provider7
terraform7
authorization7
graph-database7
python7
gtk6
security6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Rickerd0613/fail2banBetter
May 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
scratchfail2ban
Rickerd0613/rtapi
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
apipythontrackerrequest-trackerpython-module
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