Spencer Thompson
CEO at Origin
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSpencer Thompson is a serial founder and CEO with 11 years of experience building mission-driven tech companies focused on career discovery and endpoint security. He co-founded Sokanu, a machine-learning powered career assessment platform that scaled to hundreds of millions of interactions and was acquired in 2021, and now leads Prelude and Origin to push next-generation control validation and real‑time endpoint observation. Based in Vancouver, he blends product-led entrepreneurship with deep quantitative instincts from his econometrics studies and a track record of turning research into deployable security products. Beyond operating startups, he invests through Alphaninja Partners and advises mission-oriented ventures like AdeptID and Rookly, demonstrating a mix of operator, investor, and board-level perspectives. Spencer’s uncommon strength is translating academic research into practical systems that surface why agents behave the way they do across organizations, not just what they do.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dropped Out to start Sokanu, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Dropped Out to start Sokanu, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at University of London
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Github Skills (14)
prelude9
operator8
kubernetes6
security-testing6
testing6
security6
endpoint5
automation4
agent4
protect4
endpoints4
kubernetes-operator3
penetration-testing2
cybersecurity2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
preludeorg/protect
Aug 2021 - May 2022
Information on Prelude Protect, our new "red" endpoint & training product. Deploy attack chains on endpoints & improve security behavior.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 9 months
protectsecurity-toolssecurityendpointscybersecurity
sthomps/sthomps.github.io
Mar 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 pushes in 4 years
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