Sign in
Jay Freeman
Photo: EFForg, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons9

Jay Freeman

American computer scientist

Jay Ryan Freeman (born November 27, 1981) is an American businessman and software engineer. He is known for creating the Cydia software application and related software for jailbroken iOS—a modified version of Apple's iOS (where OS stands for operating system) that allows for the installation and customization of software outside of the regulation imposed by the App Store system.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Jay Freeman (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Nov 27, 1981.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedCollege of Creative Studies3

Freeman studied and graduated with a degree in computer science from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2009, he was a doctoral student in computer science at UCSB.

He built Anakrino, a decompiler for.NET available in 2002. He co-authored a paper published in 2005 about a "Java runtime event specification and monitoring library." He has worked with Brian Fox on multiple freelance projects.

From Wikipedia’s article on Jay Freeman (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Career

Occupation: businessperson, programmer, computer scientist.5

  • Date not recordedFounded Cydia4

Personal life

  • BornNov 27, 1981, Santa Barbara6
  • CitizenshipUnited States7

Politics

Freeman supported incorporation of Isla Vista, California (the community adjoining UCSB). In January 2016, he announced his candidacy for the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, and in June 2016 he lost in the primary election for that role. He then ran for a four-year seat on the board of directors for the Isla Vista Community Services District and was elected in November 2016.

Freeman was a Special District member of the Santa Barbara County Local Agency Formation Commission from 2019 until 2022. As of 2019, he was also a member of the Goleta Library Advisory Commission.

From Wikipedia’s article on Jay Freeman (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9