Open-Source Contributions

Due to spending a significant portion of my software engineering career working on proprietary applications, my open-source contributions are relatively limited.

Background support for Gherkin in JEST

Behavior Driven Development has proven to be a robust method for managing synchronization between specification and implementation. For the TypeScript based project I was working on, I found a great JEST extension supporting Gherkin. Unfortunately, the original project was missing reusable background implementation. I added the missing code in a GitHub fork.

technologies:

BDD, JavaScript, TypeScript, Gherkin, NodeJS

OpenAPI generator for NodeJS/Express

API standardization with OpenAPI/Swagger has become essential in distributed systems landscapes. Due to development team constraints, the system I contributed to used TypeScript/NodeJS in the backend. I contributed minor changes to the OpenAPI-generator, making it operational in Windows-based environments. The generator was further customized (forked) to meet project-specific backend stack requirements that couldn’t be merged back to the original project.

technologies:

Java, JavaScript, OpenAPI v2, Swagger

NodeJS based reverse-proxy bugfix

I used a NodeJS-based reverse-proxy for ingress routing of production deployments for the Software Architecture Warehouse. As described in the SAW Development blog, I discovered that the proxy doesn’t pass a content-length parameter for DELETE requests that were essential for my application.

technologies:

NodeJS, JavaScript, HTTP