Jonathan Hoyt
Principal Engineer at GitHub
California, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Hoyt is a Principal Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building products, businesses, and teams, and 17 years of formal engineering experience at GitHub where he now leads Safety & Integrity efforts. He specializes in scaling abuse detection, prevention systems, and privacy-compliant infrastructure that serve cross-functional stakeholders including ML, analysts, and support teams. A servant-leader and seasoned manager, he has a track record of hiring and growing teams across Platform Health, Trust & Safety, and Privacy while maintaining deep technical involvement. Jonathan’s open-source contributions include improving the reliability of the widely used dotenv Ruby gem through targeted tests and bug fixes, reflecting his attention to robustness and edge cases. Based in California, he blends entrepreneurial roots—from running his own IT consultancy and early ventures—to enterprise-scale engineering discipline. Colleagues know him for learning fast, iterating boldly, and prioritizing the wellbeing and effectiveness of the teams he leads.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Economics at Hillsdale College
English
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Github Skills (3)
dotenv10
testing10
ruby10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bkeepers/dotenv
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 15 PRs, 15 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on adding and modifying tests for the `dotenv` gem. Their work involved adding failing tests to identify and address potential issues in parsing environment variables, fixing comment-related bugs, and ensuring the correct handling of quoted values and shell commands. These contributions ultimately improved the reliability and robustness of the library.
environment-variablesconfigurationruby-gemdotenvruby
jonmagic/copy-excel-paste-markdown
Sep 2016 - Jan 2021
Copy a table in Excel (or other spreadsheet programs) and paste it as a Markdown table
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 5 months
programsmarkdown-tablemarkdownexcelspreadsheet
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