Jason Erickson
Software Architect at Okta, Inc.
California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Erickson is a hands-on Software Architect with over 20 years of experience building and scaling Java SaaS backends while leading teams and founding startups. Currently at Okta he leads Developer Productivity efforts and has driven cross-cutting infrastructure—including Elasticsearch, configuration services, and novel security detection/countermeasure features for password-spray attacks. Comfortable across the stack, he’s contributed to notable open-source projects like the Stormpath Java SDK (enhancing Google OAuth flows) and has implemented extensibility features such as Callbacks, Webhooks, and lifecycle automations. Jason’s passion is improving the software development process through lean and agile practices, tooling, and measurable quality/performance improvements. Pragmatic and developer-oriented, he’s the individual contributor who amplifies team productivity while still shipping code himself.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
java10
javas10
google-oauth10
mockito10
oauth10
unit-testing9
webservice9
http9
mocking9
rest9
rest-api9
groovy8
powermock6
hamcrest6
junit6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
stormpath/stormpath-sdk-java
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Official Java SDK for the Stormpath User Management REST API
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 8 PRs, 34 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the Java SDK for the Stormpath User Management REST API. Their work focused on adding new properties to providers, such as Google, and updating the OAuthProviderModel. The user modified code to include optional properties and respect new scopes in the login flow. They enhanced the project by adding the scope, hd, display and access_type functionality to the Google login flow.
apiuser-managementsdkrestrest-api
jhericks/wikihack
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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