Kris Byrum

Kris Byrum

Seattle, WA

Kris is a self-starting and quick learning professional with passion and drive.

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Skills & Experience

  • Job Title

    Developer

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

411 Achievements

  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Completing and Testing the API
  • Communicating with Mongo Through Mongoose
  • Modeling Data for the API
  • Building API Routes in Express
  • Building a REST Service
  • Going Further with Routing
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Reformatting User Input
  • Actions, Dispatch and Reducers. Oh my!
  • Modularizing the React Scoreboard Application
  • Getting Started with Redux
  • Classes
  • Refining the App
  • Building the Application
  • Setting up with Create React App
  • Validating a Form with Regular Expressions
  • Regular Expressions
  • Navigating, Nesting and Redirecting Routes
  • Getting Started with React Router
  • Going Further with Grid Layout
  • Flexible Sized Grids
  • Introducing Grid Layout
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Applying Express Knowledge
  • Middleware
  • Deeper into Routing with Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Testing and Publishing an Alexa Skill
  • Building an Alexa Skill
  • Alexa Skills Kit Overview
  • ES2015 Basics
  • API Authentication
  • Coding the API
  • Route Connections
  • Introduction to REST
  • Component Lifecycle
  • Designing Dataflow
  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Styling Rails Models
  • Ruby on Rails Helpers
  • Styling a Header
  • Sass and Rails
  • Blocks Practice
  • Working With Blocks
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Rails Partials
  • Input and Output
  • Search
  • Ruby Class Design
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 2
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 1
  • Ruby Core
  • Ruby Module Basics
  • Gems In Depth
  • Ruby Gems
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • SEO Plugins for WordPress
  • Enhancing the SEO of a WordPress Theme
  • Content Comes First
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • Next Steps
  • Improving Our Tests
  • Behavior Driven Development with Mocha & Chai
  • Introducing Unit Testing
  • JavaScript Variables
  • What a View
  • Say Hello to Django
  • Interactive Visualizations
  • Styling and Scaling Data
  • Data Binding with D3
  • Selections with D3
  • Doing More with Express
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • The Request and Response Objects in Express
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Page and Post Templates in WordPress
  • Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Core WordPress Theme Files
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Personal Branding
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • Get Involved in Open Source
  •  Create a Web Presence on GitHub
  •  Working on a Team
  • Working By Yourself
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • Tacocat Challenge
  • How to Win Friends
  • Broadcasting
  • Takin' Names
  • Making Strong Users
  • Character Builder
  • Flask Templates
  • Welcome to Flask
  • Covering Your Bases
  • Be Assertive!
  • What Is Testing?
  • Gettin' CRUD-y With It
  • Our Diary App
  • Meet Peewee
  • Python Regular Expressions
  • Timezones
  • Math Quiz App
  • Dates and Times
  • Buggy Logs
  • Cleaner Code
  • Local Python
  • Hack-n-Slash
  • Python Inheritance
  • Python Objects
  • Dungeon Game
  • Tuples
  • Dictionaries
  • Slices
  • Lists Redux
  • Letter Game App
  • Number Game App
  • Shopping List App
  • Logic in Python
  • Python Data Types
  • Python For Beginners
  • Perfect
  • Perform
  • Console I/O
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Build and Share a Unity Game
  • Game Audio
  • Score, Enemies, and Game State
  • Pickups
  • Player Input and Cameras
  • The Unity Editor and Scene Setup
  • Introduction to Video Games
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • Building WordPress Template Tags, Widgets, and Shortcodes
  • Connecting WordPress Plugins with 3rd Party APIs
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Hooking Into WordPress Plugins
  • Action Functions in WordPress
  • Filter Functions in WordPress
  • An Overview of Hooks in WordPress
  • The Local Development Environment
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Make Your Own AngularJS Widget
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • Extending Inputs
  • Two-way Data Binding
  • AngularJS Directives
  • Services and Dependencies
  • AngularJS MVC Frameworks
  • Finishing Your WordPress Theme
  • Custom Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Adding a Blog to a WordPress Theme
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • The WordPress Loop
  • WordPress Header and Footer Templates
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • The WordPress Codex
  • What's New in Foundation 5
  • Build a Website With Foundation
  • Prototyping With Foundation
  • Compass Helper Functions
  • Spriting with Compass
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Compass Layout and Typography
  • Getting Started with Compass
  • Advanced Directives
  • Concepts on Advanced Functions
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Advanced Variables, Mixins, Functions, and Placeholders
  • Getting Started with Advanced Sass
  • Modular Media Queries
  • SMACSS and Sass
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Sass Grid System
  • Sass and BEM
  • Getting Modular with Mixins and Functions
  • Going Mobile
  • Designing Email with CSS
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Ruby Loops
  • Ruby Methods
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Numbers
  • Ruby Strings
  • Objects, Classes, and Variables
  • Ruby Basics
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Laravel Controllers
  • Laravel Project Setup
  • Laravel Getting Started
  • Limiting Results in Queries
  • Using Relationship Tables
  • Filtering Input for Queries
  • Querying the Database
  • Connecting to MySQL
  • Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • jQuery Plugins
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Adding Search: Model
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Launching a WordPress Site
  • WordPress and Forms
  • Extending WordPress Template Functionality
  • Converting Static HTML into WordPress Templates
  • Preparing to Code WordPress Templates
  • Creating a Long Term Business
  • Protecting Yourself With Contracts
  • Establishing a Proper Workflow
  • Pricing and Project Proposals
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Add Bootstrap Components to WordPress Theme
  • Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • WordPress Theme Functions
  • WordPress Theme Templates
  • How WordPress Plugins Work
  • Content Strategy with WordPress
  • Local WordPress Development
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • WordPress Admin Settings
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Form Validation and Manipulation
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Introduction to Design
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Responsive Design
  • Adaptive Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Launching the Website
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Newbie