peter scholz
Freelance Software Engineer
Leipzig/Lausitz, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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RockstarPeter Scholz is a freelance software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in Ruby, APIs, and OpenAPI/Swagger tooling. Based in Leipzig/Lausitz, Germany, he combines hands‑on back-end development with open-source maintenance—contributing to projects like grape-entity and grape-swagger to improve API documentation, versioning, and response schemas. He is an OAPI enthusiast and gem maintainer who also enhanced NLP tooling by adding multilingual stop-word support and reducing dependencies in the treat library. Peter’s work shows attention to code quality and compatibility, from RuboCop fixes and dependency bumps to supporting multiple Ruby versions. Comfortable both shipping practical fixes and refactoring core logic, he excels at making libraries more robust and easier to integrate. An understated strength is his knack for improving developer experience in mature Ruby ecosystems while freelancing across varied projects.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (22)
grapesjs10
apidoc10
document-generation10
ruby10
api-documentation10
api10
natural-language-processing10
gr10
text-processing10
nlp10
documents10
documentation10
dependency-management9
configuration-management9
yaml9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ruby-grape/grape-swagger
Aug 2015 - Jul 2022
Add OAPI/swagger v2.0 compliant documentation to your grape API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 257 commits, 440 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to upgrading the grape-swagger library, specifically focusing on supporting OpenAPI (Swagger 2.0) specifications. Their work included refactoring code, adding schemas to responses, handling nested parameters, documenting file responses, and improving how the library handles versions. These changes involved modifications to both the core library files, spec files and associated entities to ensure the generation of accurate and complete API documentation, significantly improving the library's ability to generate robust and accurate API documentation for Grape APIs.
apicompliantrubyoapigrape-api
ruby-grape/grape-entity
Nov 2016 - Jul 2022
An API focused facade that sits on top of an object model.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 31 commits, 107 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `grape-entity` library, which is focused on building APIs in Ruby. Their work involved version bumping, updating dependencies, and adding changelog entries. Furthermore, the user made changes to the core logic by adding support for Ruby versions, refactoring and improving the code structure, and fixing rubocop offenses. This user demonstrates proficiency in managing and maintaining a Ruby library focused on API development.
apirubygemsentityrubyfacade
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