Hi, my name is Jacob Salassi. I am an autodidact, software engineer, security expert and executive leader.

Right now I am exploring startup ideas with my closest friends and doing a bit of consulting.

In past roles:

  • I built, lead, and hyper-scaled the Snowflake product security team successfully through IPO and beyond, supporting 1000+ engineers with 3 global teams.
  • I brought a software engineering mindset to build and lead application security at Collective Health.
  • I was a principal software engineer on NetScaler Gateway-As-A-Service where I helped transform legacy on-prem SSL VPN into the core of Citrix’ hybrid cloud offering.
  • I was the first person at Citrix to ever transition from support to software engineering.
  • I taught myself binary exploitation, robotics, and software engineering while working as a network engineer at Radware.

I am @jacob-salassi on GitHub, contributing to DuneGroup and SecMerc. You can connect with me on LinkedIn. See things I have created, written & spoken about.

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