Kerry Kimbrough
Retired at At Large
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKerry Kimbrough is a seasoned software and quality engineering professional with 11 years of recent experience and a multi-decade career that spans senior engineering, leadership, and founding roles. Based in Austin, TX, Kerry has deep expertise in test automation and quality engineering from roles at Bazaarvoice and Macheen, and has led product development and startups as President of Starting Block Technologies. He continues to contribute technically as a retired-but-not-retiring engineer, notably improving the popular swagger-parser project by fixing complex OpenAPI deserialization bugs and adding robust tests for date/time and binary types. Kerry pairs an MS in Computer Science from UT Austin and a BA in Mathematical Sciences from Rice with a pragmatic focus on making APIs and integrations reliably testable and maintainable. Colleagues describe him as a meticulous troubleshooter who brings long-form institutional knowledge to modern open-source challenges.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBA, Mathematical Sciences, BA, Mathematical Sciences at Rice University
Github Skills (12)
open-api-v310
javas10
rest-api10
api-specification10
swagger10
openapi10
openapi-documentation10
java10
unit-testing9
json8
jackson8
yaml7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
swagger-api/swagger-parser
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
Swagger Spec to Java POJOs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 28 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kerry primarily focused on improving the `swagger-parser` library. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to the deserialization of OpenAPI specifications, specifically addressing issues with handling default properties for numeric schema types, formatted string values, and enum values within array and object schemas. They also added new tests to cover date, date-time, and byte string deserialization, ensuring the correct parsing of various data types. Finally, the user addressed issues related to parameter content definitions and request body content.
openapi-specificationswagger-parserspecrestswagger-spec
kerrykimbrough/swagger-core
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
Examples and server integrations for generating the Swagger API Specification, which enables easy access to your REST API
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 3 months
apispecificationapi-specificationintegrationsrest
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