Steven Barker
BuddhaGang Bodhisattva
Olympia, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Barker is a multidisciplinary technologist and community builder with 12 years of experience blending web and mobile development, social media marketing, and spiritual leadership. As founder of BuddhaGang and webBarker, he runs large-scale online communities—including a Buddhist Facebook group exceeding 150,000 members—while providing design, development, and marketing services locally in Olympia, WA. He brings hands-on skills from early roles at Sphinx Technologies (content marketing, PHP/MySQL tutorials, and developer relations) together with a formal pursuit of a computer science degree and studies in psychology and marketing. Known for exchanging the conventional career path for a values-driven life, he funds his work through community generosity and is actively turning his movement into a nonprofit. Beyond technical and marketing chops, Steven’s unique strength is translating contemplative practice into sustainable online engagement and content that scales.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS, BA, Computer Science, Marketing, Psychology, BS, BA, Computer Science, Marketing, Psychology at The Evergreen State College
English
Github Skills (4)
sphinx-extension9
sphinx8
docker8
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
stefobark/mail
Jul 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:40 commits in 3 months
stefobark/sphinxdocker
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Sphinx-beta PPA in Docker
Contributions:91 commits in 2 months
pythonsphinx-extensiondockerppasphinx
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