Jeremy Cross is an experienced software-minded professional with 13 years blending technical development and administrative operations, currently serving as Accounting Assistant III at Rice University. He holds a BS in Computer Science with a Business minor and a Master's in Urban Planning (Sustainable Transportation), a rare combination that informs pragmatic, systems-level thinking across software and institutional workflows. Jeremy cut his teeth as an applications developer maintaining and improving customer-facing systems and has contributed bug fixes to the widely used FreeRDP project, resolving Kerberos and window parsing issues in C. He is comfortable making autonomous decisions under pressure, translating customer requirements into maintainable code and process improvements. His federal internship at the Department of Transportation exposed him to grant SOP development and high-level stakeholder engagement, reflecting an ability to navigate both technical and policy contexts. Based in Houston, he brings a disciplined, cross-domain perspective that connects engineering rigor with operational and sustainability-minded planning.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Urban Planning, Masters of Urban Planning at Texas A&M University
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 33 comments in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements related to the FreeRDP library's core functionality, particularly addressing issues in Kerberos authentication and size calculations. Their work involved modifying C code, specifically focusing on the nla.c and license.c files. The contributions also included resolving a regression issue related to Kerberos signatures, and fixing a window state parsing error.
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Jeremy Cross - Accounting Assistant III at Rice University