Thomas Reed
Owner at Backroads Bear Adventures
United States
Summary
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SeniorThomas Reed is a seasoned product and security leader with nine years of experience building and scaling macOS and consumer security products, including founding The Safe Mac and creating the viral AdwareMedic tool acquired by Malwarebytes. He progressed to director-level roles at Malwarebytes where he grew Mac offerings, separated core detection technologies for B2C and B2B use, and later led Core Technology to millions of users. As Staff Product Manager at Huntress he rapidly improved Mac EDR installation and configuration rates from about 30% to over 70%. Now based in Big Sky, Montana, he operates Backroads Bear Adventures, blending wilderness guiding, professional photography, and travel concierge services—an unusual but genuine extension of his product-first mindset into experiential hospitality. His background shows a mix of entrepreneurial grit, security engineering depth, and hands-on product optimization across both consumer and enterprise markets.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (28)
monitoring10
instrumentation10
security10
intrusion-detection10
hosts9
malware9
sql9
operating-system9
social-media9
python8
privacy8
analytics8
infection8
packer7
vagrant7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thomasareed/presentations
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
thomasareed/Recipes
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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