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Stack Exchange: now 60 Valued Associates strong!

Holy smokes… It’s been over three and a half years since Jeff recruited Valued Associate #00002 to work full-time on building Stack Overflow. In that time, a lot has changed. Jeff’s moved on to teasing us with his next project, Jarrod’s gone from spending his days knee-deep in code to managing the Core dev team…

Josh Heyer Community Manager (former)

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Welcome Valued Associates Anna, Rachel, CarleeJean and Charles!

Anna Lear is joining the Stack Exchange Team as a Community Manager working remotely from Ontario Canada. Many of you may know or recognize her from her role as a Programmers moderator, and – most recently – Stack Overflow moderator. Anna is a software developer and a longtime SO user. In her spare time she…

Alison Sperling Director of Marketing (former)

community September 15, 2011

Welcome [Valued Associates That Make Up] CHAOS!

For the past couple months, we’ve had a new team starting up out of our NY office, CHAOS (or if you’re not into that whole brevity thing: Cheerful Helpful Advocates of Stack Exchange). You’ve probably seen them around some of the sites or run into them in one of the chat rooms – but here’s…

Alex Miller Former GM, Teams & Enterprise

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Welcome Stack Overflow Valued Associates #00006 and #00007

I’m pleased to announce that Stack Overflow Inc has added two more valued associates to our team: 00006 Marc Gravell, United Kingdom Marc is a long time elected community moderator, C# MVP, and the #2 user on Stack Overflow, as sorted by reputation. Just under some guy I’ve never heard of. 00007 Ben Dumke, Germany…

Jeff Atwood Co-Founder (Former)

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Welcome Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00004

I am pleased to announce that Stack Overflow just added another team member in an officially paid capacity: Kevin Montrose. You may remember Kevin as the author of the unofficial Stack Exchange API. I didn’t realize at the time that Kevin was graduating from Rice University in Houston, TX and actively looking for employment. But…

Jeff Atwood Co-Founder (Former)

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Welcome Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00003

I am pleased to announce that Stack Overflow just added another team member in an officially paid capacity: Geoff Dalgas. Geoff and I met on a customer site in 1996. Here was this crazy kid, in charge of all the computer stuff at a government facility, who knew more about the computers and custom software…

Jeff Atwood Co-Founder (Former)

company January 7, 2016

Podcast #70 – David Was Wrong And Jason Was Right

Welcome to the Stack Exchange Podcast episode #70! Today’s podcast is brought to you by the BB-8 droid. Today your hosts are joined by developer Jason Punyon, whom you may remember from way back in Podcast #21. Punyon works out of balmy Buffalo, NY. (Here’s the Buffalo sentence they talk about for a weirdly long…

Abby T. Mars Director of Community Management - Former

careers April 6, 2011

A bookshelf on your Careers 2.0 profile

We think books are a great conversation starter and reveal a lot about one’s natural curiosity. So, we’ve added a “bookshelf” to your Careers 2.0 profile! It’s all about telling the story of your professional development. Perhaps you deftly implemented an Observer pattern for a chat application. Maybe you educated your manager about the maker’s…

Matt Sherman Engineering Manager (former)

community January 28, 2011

Stack Overflow Search — Now 81% Less Crappy

Google has ruined search for everyone. By that I mean they have done it so long, so fast, and so well — despite the recent speed bump — that users simply expect everyone’s search to be as good as Google’s. And that is … challenging. Particularly considering Google is an enormous company now, with server…

Jeff Atwood Co-Founder (Former)

beta July 14, 2010

Third Place Chat Beta Preview

Remember that third place concept I brought up a few months ago? We’re ready to give community insiders a chance to check out what Stack Overflow Valued Associates #00006 and #00007 have been working so hard on. For the next 3 days, we’ll be running a public beta sneak preview of our proposed “third place”…

Jeff Atwood Co-Founder (Former)

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Our newest team members: Diandra, Robert, Adam, Nicole and Casey!

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re growing pretty quickly over here at Stack Exchange. But just because they’re last doesn’t mean they’re least – so say hello to our newest hires! Diandra Partridge, Office Manager Denver Diandra steps in as the office manager for our new Denver hub. A graduate of Amherst College, Diandra is happy to…

Bethany Marzewski Marketing (Former)