Kenneth Piper
Senior Managing Editor at Hook & Barrel Magazine
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Piper is a seasoned editorial leader with 11+ years in senior roles and a 40-year career shaping outdoor and hunting media, currently serving as Senior Managing Editor at Hook & Barrel Magazine. He has repeatedly grown and reinvented publications—from launching pioneering online programs and sweepstakes that attracted major sponsors to single-handedly planning and editing multiple magazine titles. Known for stepping into expanded leadership when needed, he has managed teams large and small and now handles responsibilities once spread across several full-time roles. A Penn State journalism graduate, Kenneth blends strong editorial judgment with hands-on content creation, video and social media experience, and a deep knowledge of records and community engagement via Buckmasters Trophy Records. Less obvious: he also contributes technical enhancements to open-source projects like ssh-chat, applying pragmatic back-end fixes and user-management features that improve real-world user experience.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Journalism, Bachelor's degree, Journalism at Penn State University
Github Skills (10)
user-management10
chat10
go10
server10
ssh10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
network-programming8
automated-tests4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shazow/ssh-chat
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Chat over SSH.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the ssh-chat application. They implemented features such as operator commands for user management, including banning, kicking, and silencing users. Furthermore, they improved the /help command with operator-specific information and refined the /list command to include colored user names and more efficient tab completion. They also fixed message handling and incorporated a message of the day feature.
chatsshssh-chatserver
Kealper/Batchcraft
Jan 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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