Kyler Stole
Senior Software Engineer at TrueCar, Inc.
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyler Stole is a Senior Software Engineer in the Portland area with 11 years of full‑stack experience, primarily building Ruby on Rails applications and shaping GraphQL adoption at TrueCar. He leads SEO and growth engineering efforts, coordinates product and UX planning, and mentors engineers while still contributing hands‑on to REST and GraphQL endpoints. Kyler has a history of improving developer workflows and CI/CD practices and has contributed to open source—refactoring Slack RTM client behavior and implementing algorithm examples across multiple languages. Outside the codebase he brings curiosity and attention to detail from a background in international studies, and he decompresses by exploring the outdoors, playing soccer, and traveling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & International Studies, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & International Studies at Oregon State UniversityHigh School, High School at International School of Beaverton
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
javas10
algorithms10
swift10
javascript10
slack-api10
python10
java10
ruby10
data-structure9
data-structures9
rspec9
software-design8
cpp3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
slack-ruby/slack-ruby-client
Sep 2017 - Oct 2022
A Ruby and command-line client for the Slack Web, Real Time Messaging and Event APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 17 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kyler primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `slack-ruby-client` library's Real-Time Messaging (RTM) client. Their contributions involved modifying the `rtm_start_method` logic, removing configuration options related to `rtm.start` and `start_method`. Furthermore, the user addressed missing event hooks within the `Slack::RealTime::Stores::Store` class, ensuring proper handling of events. They also updated the API references for the Slack Web and RTM APIs.
slackbotslack-botrubyslackslackapi
VAR-solutions/Algorithms
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
A repository of different Algorithms and Data Structures implemented in many programming languages.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Kyler contributed implementations of the Fibonacci sequence in multiple programming languages within the `algorithms` repository. They added Fibonacci solutions in Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and Swift. The work involved creating the code, and minor revisions to some of the implementations.
pythonc-programmingmathematicsgreedy-algorithmsbit-manipulation
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