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namigop | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)

  Location: Singapore
  Remote: Hybrid or in-office
  Willing to relocate: Unlikely
  Technologies: C#, F#, AvaloniaUI, WPF, .NET 6/7/8, ASP.NETCore
  Github: https://github.com/namigop?tab=repositories
  Email: [email protected]

  Very experienced in .NET.  Held various roles over the years. I have been Software Architect, Head of Software and now in a Senior Engineering Manager role

namigop | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Building a tool for testing services. Now supports gRPC and REST

Hey HN,

So at work we have bunch services that were developed over several years. Developers have come and gone but the services remained. We have SOAP, WCF, REST and gRPC services! Nowadays, most development is done with either REST and gRPC - the WCF ones get a small bug fix every now and then. Doing QA testing on these services can get a bit challenging especially since each service is tested using a different tool. Developers and testers have to learn how to use each tool, and its quirks. Juggling back and forth can get trying at times.

I figured what if I build a single tool that can support all these services? One tool that can support many different type of services and has a consistent UI/UX. So, that's how FINT got started. I dont know if the name is memorable enough though (naming is hard). I simply took the first letters of my wife and kids names.

FINT currently supports gRPC and REST. WCF support is currently being developed. I should have that out by end of October. My plan is to also support GraphQL, SignalR, OData, REST (w OpenAPI/Swagger code gen)

Web site : http://www.bytesmotion.com

gRPC Feature List : http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/full-list-of-features

gRPC Testing Getting Started : http://bytesmotion.com/fint/getting-started-with-fint

REST Feature List : http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/list-of-features-for-rest-te...

REST Testing Getting Started : http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/getting-started-with-rest-te...

Screenshots : http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/screenshots

namigop | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

I am working on FINT, a gRPC test client that combines functional testing and performance testing in a single application. Been doing this for over a year and the software now has an extensive list of features.

http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/full-list-of-features

http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/

namigop | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)

Location: Singapore

Remote : No

Willing to relocate : Yes. I'm actually looking to move out of Singapore

Technologies : C#, F#, WPF/WCF/BizTalk, a bit of Python, Perl, Java. I primarily work on .NET but have no problem picking up another language

Email : [email protected]

About me : I'm one of those managers who write code. I currently lead a team of 10 developers. In my spare time I've built Wcfstorm, WcfStorm.REST, WcfStorm.Server and Tresi. Please see http://www.wcfstorm.com

namigop | 12 years ago | on: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

{ Full disclosure, I'm the author of WCFStorm.Rest }

If you're on Windows and is looking for an alternative, check out wcfstorm.rest (http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more-rest.aspx). It has a lot features similar to postman and adds some more, like saving requests and responses into functional test cases which includes a showing a graphical "diff" between the actual and expected responses as well as being to define custom validation rules that is executed against the http response. It can also do a single load test as well a distributed load test using several machines (http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/how-to--distributed-performance-...)

WcfStorm.Rest is a paid software but it has a LITE version which is available for free and works well for ad-hoc testing and exploring REST API endpoints.

namigop | 12 years ago | on: Your best passive income? (2014)

I started wcfstorm (http://www.wcfstorm.com) about 4 years ago. I started out with just 1 product and has now added 2 more. The income is pretty nice. It usually exceeds my monthly salary. I love it when some stackoverflow users recommend it to others when a question gets posted about WCF testing.

namigop | 12 years ago | on: REST Client for Google Chrome

Shameless plug, I wrote a commercial desktop app (with a free version of course) for REST Testing, called WcfStorm.Rest. If anyone needs to manage test cases, perf test and generate test reports, please have a look at my software. http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/Data/Sites/1/WcfStormImages/REST...

namigop | 13 years ago | on: Why F#

This is what I did with WcfStorm.Server and WcfStorm.Rest (http://www.wcfstorm.com). The UI layer was written in C#; all other layers in F#. Switching back and forth though between an OO and an FP language (at least from my experience) is not that easy. There were a few instances where I ended up writing a class with mutable properties in F# simply because I didnt want to break my chain of thought so that I can get a feature out quickly

namigop | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Solo startups? What have you built all on your own?

I started http://www.wcfstorm.com about 3 years ago. Been working on it on weekdays and weeknights and am now up to my 3rd product WcfStorm.Rest (a desktop-based REST test client)

It's been pretty good so far. WCFStorm (the WCF client) is fairly well known and WcfStorm.Rest is now starting to get some sales.

namigop | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I've built a REST Test client in my spare time

Thank you for the feedback and for the links. The one about building documentation around WCF contracts is very interesting.

Regarding WCFStorm, it has several features that are not in the built-in WCFTestClient such as (1) Save requests and responses and organize it into a "project", (2) Performance testing, (3) An object editor similar to WCFTestClient but with support for more types and others. http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more.aspx

Regarding WCFStorm.Rest, it does have similarities with POSTMan (and other clients). I'm not very familiar with POSTMan but the list of features for WCFSTorm.Rest is here http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more-rest.aspx

namigop | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I've built a REST Test client in my spare time

Thanks!

If you have feedback on how to better improve WCFStorm, please do let me know.

namigop | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I've built a REST Test client in my spare time

Oh those are screenshots for another product, WCFStorm (which is for WCF Testing). It's different from WCFStorm.Rest, the REST test client that is kind of metro - inspired. I have some screenshots here: http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/wcfstormrest-quickstart-guide.as...

You're right though. I should make that clear on that screenshots page.

namigop | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I've built a REST Test client in my spare time

Thanks for the feedback! I think that is related to the charting component. I'll go have a closer look.