Jacob Rideout
Chief Technology Officer at HiddenLayer
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Rideout is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 12 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems and leading engineering organizations, currently focused on securing AI systems at HiddenLayer. His career spans senior technical and product leadership roles at Salesforce and Agari, where he progressed from engineering director to chief technology architect and VP of product, blending deep systems expertise with product strategy. Jacob brings hands-on engineering roots—contributing maintenance fixes to open-source front-end projects like dc.js—and a background in aerospace and computer science that informs his rigorous approach to reliability and threat modeling. Based in Raleigh, he pairs startup founding and advisory experience with enterprise-scale architecture skills to translate complex security requirements into practical, auditable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityAerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (8)
javascript9
css9
g8
gruntjs8
testing7
ios6
swift6
viewcontroller6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dc-js/dc.js
Jul 2013 - Dec 2013
Multi-Dimensional charting built to work natively with crossfilter rendered with d3.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:325 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's contributions primarily involve fixing typing errors in the project's CSS file, implementing changes in the Gruntfile.js for build processes, and updating the test environment for newer jsdom versions. These commits indicate a focus on maintaining and improving the existing code base, correcting minor errors, and adapting the project to changes in its dependencies and build tools, suggesting a role in maintaining the existing functionality.
visualizationchartsmulti-dimensionalchartcharting
agaridata/tnefparse
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
a TNEF decoding library written in python, without external dependencies
Contributions:28 pushes, 28 branches in 17 days
dependenciespythondecodingdecoding-librarydecoder
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