Jacob DePriest

Jacob DePriest is the VP, Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub where he is responsible for managing the GitHub Security team. Prior to GitHub, Jacob was a senior executive at the National Security Agency where he built and led the Developer Experience program, was the Agency’s executive sponsor for open source, and led a number of IT and security transformation initiatives. Having led both engineering and security teams, Jacob is passionate about security working with the developer flow and not against it. Outside of work, Jacob enjoys staying active, reading science fiction/fantasy, and hanging out with his wife and two boys in Maryland.