Signal
Jim O'Leary has a long and varied work experience. Jim began their career in 2001 as an intern at Deitel & Associates. In 2003, they were an Intern in Security Engineering and Incident Response at America Online. In 2004, they were a Software Security Engineer at Microsoft's Health Solutions Group, where they were awarded a Gold Star Award. From 2011 to 2015, they held several Security Management Positions at Twitter, where they launched 2FA for Twitter accounts, the bug-bounty program, a rewrite of production login systems, and account anomaly detection. From 2015 to 2019, they were VP of Engineering at Signal Messenger, a fully-remote, 501c3 nonprofit organization, building free open-source tools for private communication.
Jim O'Leary received their BS in Computer Science & Psychology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2004. Afterward, they attended the University of Washington and earned their MS in Computer Science in 2011.
Signal
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Privacy is possible. Signal Messenger makes it easy. At Signal, their goal is to develop open source privacy technology that protects privacy rights, promotes free expression and enables secure global communication. They believe that private messaging should be simple and ubiquitous. Signal combines state-of-the-art security and end-to-end encryption with the features that users expect in a modern messaging application. Millions of people use Signal every day to speak freely, and a growing list of organizations have integrated the open source Signal Protocol into messaging platforms that support billions of users.