Julian Pufler is an Austrian software engineer with eight years of experience building reliable back-end systems and APIs, currently maintaining TypeORM and serving as a Senior Software Engineer at LEAN-CODERS while freelancing. He leads development on the widely used Open Disease API (disease.sh), where he implemented robust routes, multi-state queries, and data-cleaning fixes that improved accuracy for COVID-19 and influenza datasets. Comfortable across product and infrastructure boundaries, Julian combines hands-on API and back-end development with maintenance of critical open-source tooling. Early career work in automation and IT support seeded a pragmatic focus on repeatable deployments and test-driven fixes. Based in Lower Austria, he balances core-team contributions to public health data projects with commercial engineering at scale.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, Informatik, Matura, Informatik at HTL Spengergasse
API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 and Influenza
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Contributions:18 reviews, 357 commits, 135 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the API, adding and modifying routes. They implemented a new route, `/yesterday/all`, and wrote tests for it. They also refactored existing routes and added functionality to handle multiple state queries. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to data formatting, specifically dealing with apostrophes in country names, and fixed a problem where null values were displayed instead of zero.
🦠 Update a gist to contain global or country specific coronavirus stats
Contributions:2 releases, 27 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
viruspinned-gistupdatestatsgist
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Julian Pufler - Maintainer at Open Disease API (disease.sh)