Handbook
Sprint Teams
Here are the Login.gov sprint teams, most of them are named after famous women in STEM fields.
Ada
- Namesake: Ada Lovelace, one of the world’s first computer programmers
- Focus area: Unsupervised remote proofing
- Slack: #login-team-ada
- Readme: View Team Ada Readme
- AppDev oncall Slack handle:
@login-oncall-ada - AppDev oncall rotation: Team Ada AppDev Oncall Rotation
Agnes
- Namesake: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, a navy cryptanalyst, known as the ‘first lady of naval cryptology’
- Focus area: Data Enablement (data warehouse). Previously: fraud products
- Slack: #login-team-agnes
- Readme: View Team Agnes Readme
Annie
- Namesake: Annie Easley, a computer scientist and mathematician who made critical contributions to NASA’s rocket systems and energy technologies
- Focus area: Static Sites
- Slack: #login-team-annie
- Readme: View Team Annie Readme
- AppDev oncall Slack handle:
@login-oncall-annie
Evelyn
- Namesake: Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University (Yale), and pioneered work in computing
- Focus area: Data Analytics
- Slack: #login-team-evelyn
- Readme: View Team Evelyn Readme
Grace
This sprint team is not currently active
- Namesake: Admiral Grace Hopper, a computer scientist and navy officer
- Focus area: KYC/Non-biometric verification
- Slack: #login-team-grace
- Readme: View Team Grace Readme
IDVA
- Focus area: Equity Study & API
- Slack: #identity-idva
Joy
- Namesake: Dr. Joy Buolamwini, a computer scientist, artist, and activist who has published foundational work on algorithmic discrimination.
- Focus area: In Person Proofing
- Slack: #login-team-joy
- Readme: View Team Joy Readme
- AppDev oncall Slack handle:
@login-oncall-joy - AppDev oncall rotation: Team Joy AppDev Oncall Rotation
Judy
- Namesake: Judy Parsons, As a code breaker working with a secret unit in the US Navy, Parsons was instrumental in deciphering the enemy’s secret codes, but her work went unacknowledged for decades after the war.
- Focus area: Cybersecurity and Anti-Fraud work stream
- Slack: #login-team-judy
Katherine
- Namesake: Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who was a key part of early NASA spaceflights
- Focus area: Authentication
- Slack: #login-team-katherine
- Readme: View Team Katherine Readme
- AppDev oncall Slack handle:
@login-oncall-katherine - AppDev oncall rotation: Team Katherine AppDev Oncall Rotation
Kimberly
- Namesake: Kimberly Bryant, an electrical engineer who founded Black Girls Code.
- Focus area: Partnerships Account Managers and Account Management Coordinators
- Slack: #login-team-kimberly
- Readme: View Team Kimberly Readme
Mary
- Namesake: Mary Poppendieck, a computer scientist and visionary in the application of lean manufacturing principles to the world of software development
- Focus area: Developer Experience: A new software factory and minimal platform to speed our secure development processes
- Slack: #login-team-mary
- Readme: View Team Mary Readme
Melba
- Namesake: Melba Roy Mouton, Head Mathematician, Head Computer Programmer, instructor and Program Production Chief at NASA whose work tracked early Echo satellites in orbit.
- Focus area: Protocols like OpenID Connect, SAML and RISC API
- Slack: #login-team-melba
- Readme: View Team Melba Readme
Radia
- Namesake: Radia Perlman, the inventor of the spanning-tree protocol
- Focus area: Cloud Infrastructure: The cloud architectures and resources that make up our minimal platform
- Slack: #login-team-radia
- Readme: View Team Radia Readme
Ross
This sprint team is not currently active
- Namesake: Mary G Ross, the first known Native American female engineer, she worked on the preliminary design concepts for interplanetary space travel, manned space flight, ballistic missiles, and satellites in orbit above the earth
- Focus area: Inherited Proofing
- Slack: #login-team-ross
Timnit
- Namesake: Timnit Gebru, a computer scientist who has published work exposing biases in AI and algorithms.
- Focus area: Document Capture & Authentication
- Slack: #login-team-timnit
- Readme: View Team Timnit Readme
- AppDev oncall Slack handle:
@login-oncall-timnit - AppDev oncall rotation: Team Timnit AppDev Oncall Rotation
Ursula
- Namesake: Ursula Burns, who has been CEO of technology companies like Xerox
- Focus area: Partnership website and partner console
- Slack: #login-team-ursula
- Readme: View Team Ursula Readme