Rett Behrens
Software Engineer at Gusto
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorRett Behrens is a software engineer and developer advocate with nine years of experience, currently focused on developer relations at Gusto from Denver. He blends back-end engineering chops with technology evangelism, contributing to open-source SDKs such as the Xero Node OAuth 2.0 client where he improved tenant management, robustness, and documentation. Comfortable shipping production-ready integrations, Rett brings a practical attention to API surface details—like case-sensitivity fixes—that reduce friction for downstream developers. Known for translating developer needs into clearer docs and more resilient libraries, he bridges developer experience and implementation in B2B API tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
open-api-v310
apidoc10
api-specification10
api10
sdk10
nodejs10
openapi10
openapi-documentation10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
accounting8
expressjs8
console-application6
hmac6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
XeroAPI/xero-node
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Xero Node SDK for OAuth 2.0 generated from XeroAPI/Xero-OpenAPI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 33 reviews, 155 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rett contributed to the development of the Xero Node SDK by implementing and modifying functionality within the `XeroClient.ts` and `src/gen/api.ts` files. They updated the `updateTenants` function in `XeroClient.ts`, suggesting a focus on improving tenant management. Additionally, they appear to have addressed case sensitivity issues within the API definition files, suggesting a focus on ensuring the SDK's robustness. They also made updates to the docs/index.html file, likely addressing documentation and code generation aspects.
accountingopenapispecnode-sdkoauth-2sdk
XeroAPI/xero-php-oauth2
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Xero PHP SDK for oAuth 2 generated from Xero API OpenAPI Spec 3.0
Contributions:10 releases, 4 reviews, 44 commits in 1 year 2 months
accountingapiopenapi-specoauth-2php
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