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Open-Source Contributions
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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
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    Behavior Driven Development has proven to be a robust method for managing synchronization between specification and implementation. For the `TypeScript <https://www.typescriptlang.org/>`_ based project I was working on, I found a great `JEST <https://jestjs.io/docs/en/getting-started>`_ `extension supporting Gherkin <https://github.com/bencompton/jest-cucumber>`_. Unfortunately, `the original project <https://github.com/bencompton/jest-cucumber>`_ was missing reusable background implementation. I added the missing code in a `GitHub fork <https://github.com/ian7/jest-cucumber>`_. 

technologies:
    BDD, JavaScript, TypeScript, Gherkin, NodeJS


OpenAPI generator for NodeJS/Express
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    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 <https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/pull/3802>`_ 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 
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    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 <http://development.blog.saw.sonyx.net/2012/11/http-delete-failing-with-411.html>`_, 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