Todd Jacobs
Executive Director at American Mensa
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolTodd Jacobs is an executive technology leader and non-profit board officer with 15 years of experience aligning business strategy, cybersecurity, and IT operations to drive measurable outcomes. As Executive Director and founding board member of Theia Institute, he blends policy influence and tech governance to advance AI and cybersecurity education internationally. He has led fractional and interim C-suite roles (CIO, CISO, CITO) that delivered DevSecOps transformation, product-focused security, and SaaS-driven automation—achieving dramatic finance modernization results for American Mensa. A hands-on Rubyist and DevOps evangelist, Todd has contributed to open-source tooling by improving test automation and QA for distributed projects like ticgit, signaling practical engineering chops alongside strategic leadership. Trained in cybersecurity oversight at Carnegie Mellon and with a background in behavioral science and strategic analytics from US Army programs, he pairs technical depth with organizational psychology to steer risk-informed decisions. Based in Baltimore, he’s known for turning governance and security initiatives into sales-enabling, growth-oriented advantages.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Cybersecurity Oversight, Cybersecurity Oversight at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBehavioral Science Psychology & Neuroscience, Behavioral Science Psychology & Neuroscience at US Army
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Github Skills (52)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
schacon/ticgit
Sep 2010 - Nov 2010
Git based distributed ticketing system, including a command line client and web viewer
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Todd primarily focused on improving the test suite for the `ticgit` project. Their work included refactoring and updating existing RSpec tests, specifically relating to the removal of dependencies. They updated tests for empty lists, and refactored the test suite to use better practices. The user also made several changes to the test helpers, including the use of temporary directories and clarified variable names for increased readability.
golangticketingviewerweb-viewerticketing-system
todd-a-jacobs/mikado-graph-generator
Dec 2017 - Aug 2023
Provides a simple DSL for generating Mikado Graphs using GraphViz.
Contributions:11 PRs, 20 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 9 months
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