Kyle S. Email & Phone Number

Kyle S. is a QA Specialist (SDET) at Costco Travel. He possess expertise in python, java, php, css, javascript and 17 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Kyle is one of the absolute best test-oriented developers I've ever worked with. As a startup-minded developer myself, I oftentimes find myself questioning the value in having engineers invest time and energy in writing test automation vs new feature development. Kyle's hard work and automation work has paid off in spades, however, keeping our core web product online and in the green as we've shipped hundreds of new features. With a product as scalable as Wetpaint that needs to handle millions of unique users every day, Kyle's critical-path tests notify us when a new build has potential issues that we should at the very least consider before shipping the next release. Kyle's attention to detail and genuine care for the products are two of his best qualities. Whereas most engineers responsible for the quality of a product consider bare minimum or "low risk" good enough, Kyle stays late all the time pushing in extra hours to make sure that the next release is always better than the last, exceeding everyone's already-high expectations. Kyle knows our products backwards and forwards, and is always asking the right questions when new feature requests come in to make sure his new code will push and prod in the right places. In addition to being a fantastic quality engineer with a strong test automation skill set, Kyle is also a sound web developer with all the right abilities to have an impact in actual new feature updates as well as code maintenance/refactoring. With a small, very-focused team, I've had to lean on him more than once to pinch hit as a developer, adding new core features, fixing bugs and improving the code base to help us stay on schedule and keep our commitments. Kyle is a fantastic engineer that cares deeply about every product he works on. He is a brilliant member of our team, and will have a big impact on day one with any team he works with." and "Kyle worked directly for me at Wetpaint for six months and was hired to be the primary owner of the quality of the software that powers www.wetpaint.com. Kyle ended up handily discharging this duty, and on top of that growing into what I'd describe as a software developer with a penchant for QA. He joined us with little Ruby or PostgreSQL experience, yet was able to become productive in testing and troubleshooting the entire technology stack within the first week. Kyle spent the majority of his time and effort designing and implementing automation frameworks in Python, and has now branched out into software development on new end-user supporting API services. His ability to not only quickly learn new languages and technologies, but to immediately use them to create valuable tools and services gave me a welcome challenge as a manager to keep feeding him new projects! In addition to his work products, Kyle is a joy to work and collaborate with. Always positive yet realistic, he many times challenged himself, me, and the team to make sure we were working on the most important thing and doing it the best way we could, saving us from many potential rabbit holes and mistakes. I can't wait to see what Kyle does next, and I'd love to work with him again."

Listed skills include Python, Java, Php, Css, and 18 others.

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  Central Washington University

  Computer Science