Branden Cash
Principal Software Engineer at Parchment, An Instructure Company
Gilbert, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBranden Cash is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building web and mobile applications, currently leading engineering at Parchment in Gilbert, AZ. He combines frontline front-end skills (XHTML, CSS, jQuery, AJAX) with back-end and API work in PHP, C#, Java and database experience in MySQL/SQLite. Branden has a track record of shipping polished, usable sites—from freelance CMS builds to lead developer roles—and a focus on making the web enjoyable and accessible. He’s contributed to the well-known swagger-codegen project by improving PHP client generation, namespacing, and IDE-friendly docs, demonstrating open-source impact beyond day-to-day product work. Comfortable across Drupal and WordPress ecosystems as well as Android apps, he learns new technologies quickly and cleans up legacy code pragmatically. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who values usability as much as solid architecture.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Chandler-Gilbert Community College
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Github Skills (11)
open-api-v310
swagger-codegen10
rest-api10
api-specification10
php10
swagger10
api10
openapi10
apidoc10
openapi-documentation10
testing8
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
swagger-api/swagger-codegen
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
swagger-codegen contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Branden primarily focused on enhancing the PHP client code generation capabilities within the swagger-codegen project. Their contributions included improving namespace support, adding proper PHP documentation for IDE code hinting, and fixing test cases. Additionally, the user updated the sample client, demonstrating hands-on experience with the generated PHP code. They also worked on removing unused code and adjusting namespacing configurations.
openapiparsingswaggerswagger-codegenrest
ammmze/DeployMint
Sep 2012 - Jul 2016
A staging and deployment system for WordPress
Contributions:97 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
wordpress
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