Ed Vinyard
Contract Software Engineer at Cover Zero
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEd Vinyard is a contract software engineer with 10+ years of experience building resilient, API-driven systems and improving developer experience for teams from startups to mature product companies. He has led API governance and launched customer-facing APIs at Stoplight/SmartBear, modernized deployments and CD pipelines across cloud platforms, and driven architectural decompositions and microservice planning. Comfortable both hands-on and in technical leadership, he focuses on validation, reliability, and test-driven practices—evidenced by contributions to Stoplight’s Prism project around OpenAPI schema normalization and readOnly/writeOnly handling. Based in Austin, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for reducing expert workload via automation and LLM-powered features, helping organizations deliver features faster and safer.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
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apidoc10
json-schema10
api10
openapi10
database10
typescript9
virtualenv9
typescript-types9
mocking9
overriding9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stoplightio/prism
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Turn any OpenAPI2/3 and Postman Collection file into an API server with mocking, transformations and validations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 34 commits, 37 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily worked on enhancing input/output validation and schema normalization within the project, focusing on OpenAPI specifications. Their contributions included modifying the `json-schema-merge-allof` dependency and refactoring code to handle `readOnly` and `writeOnly` properties. The user also implemented tests and addressed code review feedback, indicating a focus on improving the quality and robustness of the API validation logic. These changes involved updating several core files including those related to validators, mock generation and general HTTP functionality.
oasxapiapi-testingpostman-collectionmocking
EdVinyard/FlaskBuddy
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
a pair of services for Docker Compose and ECS testing
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
ecstestingdockercomposedocker-compose
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