Portfolio
I recieved training to interview software developers here at Stack Overflow for our open roles: https://stackoverflow.com/company/work-here
Working as a developer on the Outdated Answers project for Stack Overflow. This project is focused on making sure that users can find good answers to questions on our site. https://meta.stackoverfl...
I worked with another developer on my team to triage and fix an important bug that was impacting the display of revisions and history for posts on Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network. Whi...
After seeing no negative result in the unpinning A/B test (and in fact seeing a positive impact), we permanently unpinned accepted answers on Stack Overflow. I was the one to flip the big scary swi...
Shipped the Unpinning Accepted Answers experiment. This was an A/B test across all Stack Overflow visitors to compare the behavior between when we pin or unpin the accepted answer. We looked at how...
Graduated from University of Northern British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science, double majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science.
On my second day at Stack Overflow, I completed and shipped my first bugfix! https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/359541/718314
I gave an internal engineering technology talk about Blazor, a .NET feature for building client-side interactive websites in C#.
I completed an onboarding project that helped me learned the codebase at Stack Overflow and presented it to the entire product, design, engineering, and community teams. I went all in on creating a...
I played Magic: the Gathering with some people at Stack Overflow, including the podcast hosts! https://twitter.com/kylejrp/status/1357541800236310529
I published a blog post titled I work with the Nerd Avengers? This is my favorite blog post I've written about how joining the team at Stack Overflow felt like joining a team of nerd superheroes. I...
I spoke in a second year Computer Science class at University of Northern British Columbia to talk about my experiences as a professional software developer. I gave advice on how I became a develop...
I became a Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster! I took a training course with Agile Mentors last week and learned how to do Scrum the right way 🙌 https://bcert.me/sxhhxcssh
I recorded a marketing video for our Stack Overflow for Teams product where I explained how it helps me in my day-to-day engineering job at Stack Overflow. This was the first time I've helped recor...
https://kylejrp.com/blog/give-yourself-a-buffer/
https://kylejrp.com/blog/the-history-of-sweet-jams/
https://kylejrp.com/blog/imagine-speedrunning-risk/
https://kylejrp.com/blog/how-to-take-a-break/
https://kylejrp.com/blog/ugly-duckling-developer/
https://kylejrp.com/blog/im-an-experienced-developer/
https://kylejrp.com/blog/just-write-the-first-post/
I pranked millions of Stack Overflow users with our prank - a paywall on copying from Stack Overflow! When users tried to copy from a question or an answer, they would get a prompt that they only h...
We wrapped up a project that makes it easier for our community managers to run moderator elections on our Stack Exchange sites. While these changes don't impact users directly, it frees up a lot of...
I launched a new website for the Prince George CN Centre. I acted as a project manager and worked with a vendor to ship a redesigned website. https://www.cncentre.ca/
I launched a new website for the Prince George Civic Centre. I acted as a project manager and worked with a vendor to ship a redesigned website. https://www.princegeorgeciviccentre.ca/en/news/annou...
I asked my very first question on Stack Overflow. I was doing some very strange things with SharePoint and stored procedures and asked about a potential SQL injection. My question got an answer fro...
I helped release version 2.0 of Water.css, an open-source CSS framework. I helped contribute to almost 200 GitHub issues and helped to release a major version. https://github.com/kognise/water.css/...
I made my first contribution to Water.css, an open source CSS framework. https://github.com/kognise/water.css/pull/9
I attended Grand Prix Vancouver 2016 to play some competitive Magic: the Gathering! The format was Modern. I earned two byes and a free flight/hotel by winning a local tournament. I won 5 rounds an...
I attended Grand Prix Vancouver 2016 to play some competitive Magic: the Gathering! The format was Oath of the Gatewatch / Battle for Zendikar sealed. I won 5 rounds and lost 4, unfortunately not m...
My first day as a Software Developer on the Public Platform team at Stack Overflow!
I got to meet my team at Stack Overflow - the Public Platform team! We're the team responsible for the public Q&A platform of Stack Overflow.
I got to talk about the April Fools prank at Stack Overflow on the podcast! I explained how I developed the prank and was joined by Cassidy Williams who explained how the physical keyboard was buil...
I spoke on a podcast for the first time! I was on The Stack Overflow Podcast talking about my career path from retail, to help desk, to working as the "web guy" for my local government, to finally ...