Jonathan Morton
Co-Founder, Managing Member at Right Ascension 231
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Morton is a seasoned software leader and founder with 16 years of hands-on engineering and management experience, currently co-founding and running Right Ascension 231 from Sioux Falls. He has led engineering teams and product delivery across startups and large enterprises, including roles as Software Engineering Manager at KBR and Deputy CTO at Goodshuffle. Jonathan blends technical depth—early career work as a technical lead and QA-focused open-source test contributions—with strategic advisory experience for executives and founders. His background spans full lifecycle development, account-level technical leadership, and building reliable systems for mission-driven organizations. Known for a curious, ENTP-style approach, he pairs rapid problem-solving with a knack for turning stakeholder needs into pragmatic technical roadmaps. He often surfaces behind-the-scenes quality improvements, as evidenced by focused test automation contributions to open-source projects.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at George Mason University
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Github Skills (12)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
testing10
ruby-on-rails9
test-automation9
passenger6
minitest6
nginx6
proxy6
validation6
dedicated-server6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
natew/obtvse
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Deprecated: See natew/obtvse2
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jonathan's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying tests for the posts controller. They added a series of tests to verify various aspects of the controller, including listing posts, reading posts, and admin functionalities like creating, editing, and deleting posts. The tests cover scenarios to check different user permissions and ensure correct responses for valid and invalid requests. The focus is to establish that the admin can create, edit, and delete posts as well as that non-admin users are restricted to specific actions.
jmorton/academic
Jun 2010 - Apr 2012
Contributions:54 commits in 1 year 10 months
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