Jonathan Hooper
Senior Software Engineer at Caribou Financial, Inc.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Hooper is a mission-driven senior software engineer with 11+ years building scalable, secure, and user-focused platforms, most notably helping Login.gov scale to over 100 million users and contributing to analytics.usa.gov and cloud.gov pages. He blends backend and frontend expertise—shipping identity verification, AAL3, and encryption improvements in a major open-source IdP—and has hands-on DevOps experience automating deployments and observability for government-grade systems. As an engineering leader, he has led incident response, on-call, A/B testing, and NIST IAL2 compliance efforts while fostering data-driven teams that prioritize reliability and user trust. He also brings unusual breadth from education work (designing coding curricula used nationally) to migrating legacy front-end stacks, proving comfortable across both technical rewrites and organizational transformations.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Louisiana State University
Github Skills (35)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
deploying10
scripting10
uswds10
css10
rspec10
user-authentication10
authentication10
bash10
rails10
circleci10
analytics10
cicd10
ruby10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
18F/identity-idp
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Login.gov Core App: Identity Provider (IdP)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 releases, 1140 reviews, 1291 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan focused on implementing features and fixing bugs related to the Identity Provider (IdP) application, specifically within the context of user authentication and identity verification. Their contributions included adding unit tests for verifying phone numbers, implementing shared examples to test cancellation behavior, and adding features for handling AAL3 requirements. The user also refactored existing code to improve consistency across IdP steps and added logging and security measures such as encryption context to KMS calls.
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18F/analytics-reporter
Jan 2017 - Sep 2019
Lightweight analytics reporting and publishing tool for Digital Analytics Program's Google Analytics 360 data.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:97 commits, 70 PRs, 114 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan made significant contributions to the project's infrastructure and deployment processes, as evidenced by their work on shell scripts and configuration files. Their work focused on adding new environments for report publishing, particularly for the Executive Office of the President. The user also addressed pathing issues and improved logging within the cloud environment. Furthermore, the user updated the deployment scripts to configure the application for use with New Relic.
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