Jim O'leary
VP Of Engineering at Signal Messenger
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim O'leary is a seasoned engineering leader with 6 years in executive roles and two decades of hands-on security and software experience across Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, and Signal. As VP of Engineering at Signal, he runs and evolves a fully-remote, nonprofit engineering organization building privacy-first, open-source communication tools. His background blends product security, incident response, secure design, and large-scale organizational leadership—having launched company-wide programs like bug bounties, 2FA, and privacy incident response teams. Jim is comfortable switching between strategy and code, having written security tooling, taught secure-coding courses, and led engineering teams from small groups to international multi-manager organizations. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a BS combining Computer Science and Psychology from RPI, a combination that informs both technical rigor and user-centered security thinking. Colleagues describe him as the kind of leader who can navigate multi-million-dollar budgets while still diving into the technical details that keep products safe and private.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of WashingtonBS, Computer Science & Psychology, BS, Computer Science & Psychology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (23)
kotlin10
messaging10
electron10
messenger10
windows10
linux10
signal10
chat10
macos10
ios9
java9
android9
swift9
signal-protocol9
cryptography7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
signalapp/Signal-Desktop
May 2020 - Oct 2020
A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 5 months
signalwindowselectronchatlinux
signalapp/zkgroup
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
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