Rich Rein
Fire & Rescue Instructor at MN Responds (Medical Reserve Corps) - Rice County
Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolRich Rein is a seasoned software architect and full-stack web developer with 12 years of experience building enterprise web applications and improving developer practices. He combines deep front-end expertise in React, Angular and testing tools with back-end and legacy-system knowledge (Java, Spring, DB2, COBOL), enabling pragmatic modernization efforts. At Federated and Pearson VUE he introduced automated testing, coding standards and performance-focused refactors, and has contributed to test suites for notable open-source projects like jquery-mockjax. Based in Minnesota, he pairs technical leadership with public service—training firefighters, serving as an EMT/firefighter, and volunteering in medical response—bringing practical, people-centered problem solving to both software and emergency preparedness.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science program, Computer Science program at Academy CollegeHigh School diploma, High School diploma at Waterville-Elysian-MorristownGeneral Education, General Education at Concordia University, Nebraska
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Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
javascript10
jquery10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jakerella/jquery-mockjax
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
The jQuery Mockjax Plugin provides a simple and extremely flexible interface for mocking or simulating ajax requests and responses
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to improving the test suite for the `jquery-mockjax` plugin. Their commits focused on adding, modifying, and correcting unit tests to ensure the plugin's functionality, especially regarding dynamic response statuses. They updated tests to recognize and handle arrays of statuses, and incorporated looping mechanisms to increase test coverage and reliability. The contributions involved modifying existing test files to cover edge cases and ensure comprehensive testing of the plugin's features.
ajax-requestjquerymocking
reinrl/cyberdojo-marsrover
Feb 2024 - Aug 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
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