Randall Degges
Software Engineer at snyk
Bay Area | Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarRandall Degges is a software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building backend services and tooling across the Bay Area and Bend, Oregon. Comfortable working close to the metal, he enjoys hacking on practical infrastructure—his open-source work includes iterating on an IP-address API to improve proxy handling, JSON/JSONP support, and code structure. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances quick experimentation with thoughtful refactors and debugging. He brings a developer-first mindset to production systems and a playful curiosity that surfaces in both prototypes and polished services.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (32)
api-rest10
git10
github10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
git-repository10
authentication10
go10
api10
virtualenv10
jwt10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rdegges/ipify-api
Jan 2014 - Jan 2018
A public IP API service.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Randall primarily focused on modifying the back-end logic of the IP address API. They made several iterations to the core `ipify.go` file, including attempts to extract IP addresses from the `X-Forwarded-For` header, which suggests working on handling proxy servers. Their work also involved refactoring and adding features like JSON and JSONP support, as well as refactoring the code to improve its structure. The user also added debugging statements for analysis.
apiip-apidnspublic-ipapi-service
rdegges/cryptocompare
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
A static website that compares cryptocurrency prices for popular currencies.
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cryptocurrency
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