My journey to become Top 1% contributor on a popular online forum

Juned Ahsan
7 min readNov 3, 2021

StackExchange is a network of sites that allows users to ask and answer questions. There are close to 200 sites in this network, each dedicated to a community.

https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=grid

One of these communities is StackOverflow. If you are a computer engineering enthusiast, you may already know about it. For everyone else, here is the Wikipedia description:

“Stack Overflow is a question-and-answer website for professional and enthusiast programmers. It is the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network, created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. It features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. ”

11 million users visit StackOverflow every day. Approximately 6000 questions are asked daily, and 70% of those questions are answered on the same day.

Screenshot from https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic

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Juned Ahsan

Strong believer of learning and sharing. Professionally into enterprise, people and technical leadership. Personally, I like to read, write, and meet new peop