Jono Yang is a Software Analyst/Developer with 11 years of experience based in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently building and maintaining codebase auditing and license provenance tooling at nexB. He specializes in software supply chain analysis, producing auditable license and copyright attribution reports and evolving DejaCode to meet client needs. An active contributor to the ScanCode Toolkit ecosystem, he focuses on backend data-processing and build/release work—improving JSON-to-CSV pipelines, adding package/email/URL support, and hardening edge cases with tests. Jono combines hands-on engineering with a strong emphasis on reproducibility and quality in open-source compliance tooling. Trained in computer science at UC Santa Cruz, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to solving complex software inventory problems.
:mag: ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, dependencies by "scanning code" ... to discover and inventory open source and third-party packages used in your code. Sponsored by NLnet project https://nlnet.nl/project/vulnerabilitydatabase, the Google Summer of Code, Azure credits, nexB and others generous sponsors!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build/Release Engineer
Contributions:49 reviews, 649 commits, 139 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jono's contributions primarily involve refactoring and modifying the `etc/scripts/json2csv.py` script, likely for the purpose of transforming ScanCode JSON output into CSV files. This suggests involvement in the data processing pipeline. The changes include adding support for package, email, and URL fields, and also a new test to verify the CSV output format of the scan result when using the scanner options, indicating their work is concerned with the build process and quality. Their work also incorporates fixes to edge cases.
Contributions:3 reviews, 26 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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Jono Yang - Software Analyst Developer at nexB Inc.