Jonathan Kovach

Voatz is a startup voting company ranging from 10-30 employees that prides itself on security and customer service. It consists of mobile apps and web apps that have been used nationally and globally for elections in public governments, academic institutions, and private organizations. During my time working here, the company has experienced growth, regularly winning new clients via pilot programs and RFPs. I started as a software engineering intern in January 2018, and grew into the role of a Software Engineer after graduating college in May 2018. I was promoted to Senior Software Engineer in December 2019, and most recently earned the position of Lead App Developer in May 2022. In this role, I work on iOS Development and Web Development, oversee Android Development, and manage a team of developing software engineers.

Notable Web Development Projects

Voter Web Application - Led a team of three developers to refactor a web app to be scalable and reusable. At project start point, the app information was hardcoded per election/client. At project endpoint the app was configured for 15+ simultaneous elections, with a total voter count up to 400,000. This app is continuously reused to support new elections and clients.

Registration Portal - Created a web app according to the client that registered users for a nationwide election and allowed approval or rejection based on information provided by the user. Users were able to check their registration status through the app. Integrated with Facebook Javascript SDK to require users to be logged in via Facebook before proceeding, and autofill information from their profile, and verified user mobile numbers with SMS OTP via Twilio’s API.

Internal Verification Portal - Built an internal portal that reduced time to perform a mission critical task by 10x. Integrated with AWS S3 to load images and set a status on a user's profile based on the manual inspection of images.

Notable iOS Development Projects

Mobile Application - The flagship product of the company, I maintained the project by regularly submitting to the app store, adding configurable features, refactored the code to use common design principles and improved durability by adding unit tests. Used Apple’s Vision framework to create a document scanner for verifying user identity. Implemented security protocols and enhancements including but not limited to: Certificate pinning, Encryption of REST API Traffic, Tokenization, Obfuscation, and Threat Detection