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

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