Dave Cowden
Owner at Parametric Products, LLC
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarDave Cowden is a seasoned software professional and entrepreneur with 17 years of experience who runs Parametric Products, LLC from Greenville, SC. He blends full-stack development chops with practical product ownership, having contributed meaningful open-source improvements to the well-known WebGoat legacy project—modernizing its build to Maven, producing executable JARs, and enhancing lesson UX with an embedded ACE editor. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, he focuses on compatibility, usability, and preparing systems for future extensibility. As an owner-operator, he pairs hands-on coding with the business sense to ship maintainable, user-focused software. An understated strength is his ability to modernize legacy JavaEE applications without disrupting existing lesson content, making old projects easier to run and evolve.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
WebGoat/WebGoat-Legacy
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
Legacy WebGoat 6.0 - Deliberately insecure JavaEE application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 29 days
Contributions summary:Dave contributed to the WebGoat legacy project by refactoring code to align with Maven standards and adding the necessary plugins to create executable JAR files, improving platform compatibility. They implemented interactive source code views for lessons by incorporating the ACE editor and making related adjustments to the main application pages and JavaScript files. The user also removed editor scripts, refining the user interface and preparing for future code editing enhancements.
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dcowden/battlepoint
Jun 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 134 pushes, 18 branches in 6 years 7 months
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