Jason Jones
GRC Engineering Team at Workiva
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Jones is a versatile software leader and founder with nearly two decades of experience building cloud-native B2B SaaS and enterprise systems, currently helping evolve Workiva’s GRC platform. As Founder & CTO of Gain Compliance he scaled a product to $5M+ ARR and thousands of users, displacing incumbents and winning startup recognition, and previously led Workiva’s industry-leading XBRL product teams. He spans hands-on engineering, architecture, product management, and sales engineering—equally comfortable shipping code or setting technical strategy—and has been recognized as an Oracle ACE Director for his deeper platform expertise. Based in Des Moines with a CS degree and an MBA, he combines Midwestern pragmatism with a taste for measurable customer delight and a pragmatic skepticism that fuels thoughtful risk-taking.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business at The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business
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Github Skills (94)
pip10
python-development10
pipfile10
virtualenv10
packaging10
gunicorn9
python9
publish9
des9
wsgi-server9
http-server9
httpd8
unicorn8
wsgi8
pdf8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GainCompliance/Flask-HAL
Nov 2016 - Sep 2020
Flask Extension to easily add support for REST HATEOAS via the HAL Specification: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kelly-json-hal-07
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
hal-specificationpythonspecificationflaskkelly
GainCompliance/launchdarkly-python-client
May 2017 - Jan 2019
LaunchDarkly SDK for Python
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
pythonlaunchdarkly-sdklaunchdarklysdkpython3
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