Kyle Pollard
Senior Software Developer at Stack Overflow
British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKyle Pollard is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining Microsoft-centric web applications, currently shaping the Public Platform at Stack Overflow that serves over 100 million monthly users. He combines a double degree in Computer Science and Mathematics with hands-on full-stack skills in C#, ASP.NET Core, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and practical experience with Redis and refactoring legacy systems. Known for a people-first, growth-minded approach, Kyle brings leadership and customer-service roots to project management, security-conscious development, and cross-team collaboration. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UX and tooling on popular front-end projects—adding theme support, build optimizations, and live-reload—to make simple sites feel polished. Based in British Columbia, he pairs continual learning with a track record of shipping reliable, maintainable software for municipal and high-traffic public platforms.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)
Stackoverflow
2,233reputation
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21answers
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Github Skills (17)
css10
sass10
css-frameworks10
javascript9
html9
minimum8
min8
simpletest8
browsersync7
netcore6
macos6
sql-server6
gdscript6
connection-string6
autoprefixer6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kognise/water.css
Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites just a little nicer
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 62 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the front-end development of the CSS framework. They created themed styles using Sass, generating light and dark themes. They also fixed references and implemented a theme switcher, enhancing the user experience and allowing dynamic theme selection. Further improvements included adding browser-sync and optimizing build processes through source maps and minification.
csscss-framework
kylejrp/javascript-30
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:88 commits, 28 pushes, 6 branches in 16 days
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