Kyle Florence
Self Employed
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Florence is a versatile software engineer with 16 years of experience building web and game-related products, currently focused on passion projects as a self-employed developer. He has progressed from front-end roles to staff and principal engineering positions at Mosaic, leading teams focused on engineering productivity, developer experience, and distributed systems on AWS. Comfortable across the stack, his background spans Scala, Play, JavaScript, PHP, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, reflecting a blend of product-facing UI work and backend systems design. An active contributor to open-source internationalization tooling, he fixed tricky number parsing and localization bugs in the widely used Globalize library, improving cross-locale numeric handling. Trained in multimedia and graphic design, he brings a designer’s eye to UX and frontend polish while retaining deep engineering rigor. He seeks roles that combine technical leadership, collaboration, and the chance to keep learning and building things that are enjoyable to use.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Chantilly High SchoolB.A. Multimedia, B.A. Multimedia at San Diego State UniversityLakeview High SchoolGraphic Design, Graphic Design at Longwood University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
parserator10
javascript10
parser10
rails-i18n10
testing10
formatter10
ember-i18n10
formatters10
i18n-js10
jquery9
cldr9
deserialization6
php6
spock6
scala-cats6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
globalizejs/globalize
Jul 2011 - Jul 2011
A JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that leverages the official Unicode CLDR JSON data
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:6 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on refining the `Globalize` library, specifically addressing issues related to number parsing and localization. They fixed bugs in `parseFloat` and `parseInt` functions to handle negative currency formats and invalid number inputs. Additionally, the user implemented and modified test suites, including the addition of lifecycle setup/teardown methods, ensuring consistent testing practices. These changes aimed to improve the accuracy and robustness of number formatting and parsing across different locales within the library.
l10ntranslationinternationalizationcldr-dataparser
kflorence/jquery-deserialize
Apr 2011 - Aug 2021
Decodes serialized form data and populates a form with that data.
Contributions:6 releases, 101 commits, 7 PRs in 10 years 6 months
form-data
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