Stephen Kirby
Solutions Engineer at Coder
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Kirby is a product manager with six years of hands-on experience bridging software engineering and product strategy, currently shaping developer tooling at Coder. He brings a strong engineering foundation in Python, TypeScript, and Go, and has contributed to the popular coder/coder repo by improving build and release automation and site code—work that reflects a focus on release reliability and DevOps efficiency. Previously he applied data engineering and deep learning research to public safety projects as an undergraduate research assistant at the University of Alabama. Comfortable moving between code and roadmap, he leverages technical fluency to prioritize features that reduce friction for developer workflows. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex engineering constraints into practical product decisions that accelerate shipping. His background in both data science and production automation gives him an uncommon combination of research rigor and release-oriented pragmatism.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Science, Data Science at University of Alabama
Github Skills (16)
terraformer10
build-engine10
automation10
github-ci10
script10
automations10
bash10
build-tools10
githubaction-workflow10
devops10
buildr10
terraform10
golang9
go9
docker8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
coder/coder
Jun 2022 - Jul 2026
Secure environments for developers and their agents
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:170 reviews, 238 PRs, 446 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on maintaining and improving the project's build and release processes. Their contributions include fixing script references, correcting flags in the release script, and modifying the script to ignore commit metadata checks during the cherry-picking process. These changes indicate a focus on automating and streamlining the software release workflow. Additionally, they made updates to the site code.
devcontainersremote-developmentdevopsvscodeide
stirby/ts-labling
Mar 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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