Kyle Thayer
Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Washington Information School
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Thayer is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington Information School with a PhD from UW’s Paul G. Allen School and over a decade of software development experience. He blends academic rigor with practical engineering—having built data visualization and analysis tools at Emory, geospatial and scientific software at NSIDC, and production applications at RealGo. Comfortable across languages and stacks (C/C++, Java, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Perl and more), he teaches and researches intersections of programming, discrete math, visualization, and international issues in computing. Fluent in Spanish and experienced in both 3D modeling and multidimensional data visualization, he brings a rare mix of classroom pedagogy and hands-on system-building to students and collaborators.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of WashingtonBS, Math and Computer Science, Minor in Physics, BS, Math and Computer Science, Minor in Physics at Colorado State UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Emory University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
25reputation
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Github Skills (15)
debugging6
mouse-events6
j2ee6
javafx6
development-environment6
constructor6
spring5
javascript4
css4
react4
physics1
science1
computer-science1
r-package1
technical-writing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
social-media-ethics-automation/book
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:107 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
kylethayer/bioladder
Mar 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:16 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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