Jules Womersley
CEO, CTO at Tripco
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJules Womersley is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling product-led technology companies, currently serving as CEO and CTO of Safety Cybersecurity in Vancouver. He blends deep technical chops—contributing to the widely used open-source Python security tool Safety—with product and go-to-market leadership that has taken startups from attic projects to enterprise deployments at AWS, Nokia, and Adyen. Jules has a track record of founding and exiting SaaS products (ExchangeRate-API) and steering early-stage teams through acquisition (Huzza → Kickstarter), coupled with a Stanford MS in Computer Science focused on HCI and AI. Known for spotting supply-chain threats early, his company reports significantly more vulnerabilities than public sources and was among the first to detect malicious packages like Shai Hulud, reflecting a rare mix of hands-on engineering, security instinct, and operator experience.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Cape TownHigh School, High School at Diocesan CollegeMaster's Degree Computer Science - HCI and AI, Master's Degree Computer Science - HCI and AI at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
dependency-management10
vulnerability-detection10
package-management10
python10
security10
devsecops4
cicd4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pyupio/safety
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Safety checks Python dependencies for known security vulnerabilities and suggests the proper remediations for vulnerabilities detected.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 14 reviews, 43 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jules primarily contributed to version updates, bug fixes, and enhancements to the `safety` library, which checks Python dependencies for security vulnerabilities. Their work included updating the version number across multiple files, addressing a formatting error in `formatter.py`, and adding changelog information. They also made adjustments to the code, including the addition of proxy support and improvements to the HTML output.
dependenciespythonsecurity-toolsvulnerabilitiessecurity
Jwomers/many-time-pad-attack
Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
Attacking A Many Time Pad - Cryptography
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
securityencryptioncryptographypad
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