FastAPI

I started contributing to FastAPI in 2023. Since then, my work has included repository maintance, triaging contributions, reviewing pull requests, improving documentation, simplifying tests, and working on the design of the docs website.

Keeping the repository moving

Part of my work has been helping the team work through the pull-request backlog: triaging, labeling, reviewing contributions, organizing PRs, and merging work that was ready. Peak activity was in 2024, when I directly resolved more than 120 PRs from the backlog that was open at the start of the year: 109 merged and 15 closed without merging. That starting backlog contained 650+ PRs. I also reviewed, followed up on, or triaged at least 28 additional PRs from the same backlog before they were resolved by others.

As of November 2026, the public history includes 64 merged PRs I authored and reviews on 88 PRs by other contributors. But those counts capture only part of the work; triage, labels, follow-up, and merging other people’s contributions also take time.

Making contributing a bit easier

I worked on the workflows around contributions: allowing translations to be approved with one reviewer, updating the issue-manager workflow, and adding a discussion template for new translation requests.

I also updated the contributor setup instructions and added a script to maintain GitHub topic repositories and external links, helping keep the community’s resources current.

Simplifying the tests

In January 2025, I contributed 24 PRs simplifying the tutorial tests. They covered request bodies, dependencies, forms and files, headers, security, OpenAPI schemas, WebSockets, and more.

Documentation and translations

I’ve helped with the guides for generated TypeScript clients, project generation, authentication, deployment, and the FastAPI CLI. That includes improving the client-generation script, keeping references aligned with Pydantic’s documentation, and updating FastAPI Cloud deployment instructions.

On the translation side, I contributed Spanish documentation, worked on consistency, and fixed rendering issues in translated pages.