Kong/docs.konghq.com
Mar 2025 – Mar 2025
1 Month active
Languages Used
MarkdownYAML
Technical Skills
API DocumentationCloudDevOpsDocumentationTechnical Writing
Joshua Schmid
PROFILE
Joshua Schmid
Joshua Schmid developed user-facing documentation and centralized management features for Kong’s plugin ecosystem, focusing on the Kong/docs.konghq.com and Kong/developer.konghq.com repositories. He authored comprehensive guides for the kafka-consume and confluent-consume plugins, detailing implementation, configuration, and authentication integration using Markdown and YAML. Joshua also implemented centralized consumer management for Kong Konnect, enabling realm-aware configuration and streamlined onboarding across multiple control planes. Additionally, he documented compatibility changes for Kafka 4.0, clarifying the removal of SASL Handshake v0 and its migration impact. His work demonstrated depth in API documentation, technical writing, and DevOps, improving developer experience and operational consistency.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
100%Features
Repository Contributions
4Total
Bugs
0
Commits
4
Features
3
Lines of code
480
Activity Months2
Your Network
174 people
Work History
December 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 monthly summary for Kong/developer.konghq.com: Focused on delivering a clear compatibility note for Kafka SASL Handshake v0 removal in Kafka 4.0, ensuring developers are aware of the change and its implications. The update improves transparency, aids migration planning, and reduces potential downstream support questions.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 monthly summary for Kong/developer.konghq.com: Focused on delivering a clear compatibility note for Kafka SASL Handshake v0 removal in Kafka 4.0, ensuring developers are aware of the change and its implications. The update improves transparency, aids migration planning, and reduces potential downstream support questions.
December 2025
March 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary: Delivered developer-focused enhancements for Kong plugins by producing comprehensive user-facing documentation for kafka-consume and confluent-consume, and implemented centralized consumer management for Kong Konnect across multiple control planes. This work reduces onboarding time, standardizes configuration across environments, and strengthens authentication with Key Auth integration, enabling more scalable and flexible deployments.
March 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary: Delivered developer-focused enhancements for Kong plugins by producing comprehensive user-facing documentation for kafka-consume and confluent-consume, and implemented centralized consumer management for Kong Konnect across multiple control planes. This work reduces onboarding time, standardizes configuration across environments, and strengthens authentication with Key Auth integration, enabling more scalable and flexible deployments.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness95.0%
Maintainability95.0%
Architecture95.0%
Performance95.0%
AI Usage25.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
MarkdownYAML
Technical Skills
API DocumentationCloudDevOpsDocumentationTechnical Writingdocumentation
Repositories Contributed To
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Kong/developer.konghq.com
Dec 2025 – Dec 2025
1 Month active
Languages Used
Markdown
Technical Skills
documentation