Jon Jarboe is a Principal Consultant and seasoned product marketing and engineering leader with 13+ years of experience helping security- and software-focused startups grow from stealth to exit. He blends hands-on engineering instincts—exemplified by contributions to open-source tooling like adding terminal colorization to Terrascan—with deep product marketing, sales engineering, and GTM expertise across companies such as Accurics, Cycode, and Wind River. Jon excels at translating technical value into demand-generation narratives, aligning dev, security, and ops teams, and driving measurable adoption and revenue. Based in San Diego, he pairs pragmatic delivery (early-career embedded systems leadership and measurable support improvements) with growth-hacker creativity and mentorship.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:23 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the project by adding support for colored output in the terminal. They implemented a `termcolor` package with functions for colorizing text based on various styles and conditions. The user also updated module files, including `go.mod`, and added test cases to ensure proper colorization of output formats such as YAML and JSON. Further contributions involved cleaning up flag handling and refactoring styling to support a styles file.
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 2 months
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Jon Jarboe - Principal Consultant at Self-employed