How to build a reputable StackOverflow profile

How to contribute to the world’s largest developer Q&A site

Stack Overflow is the world’s leading Q&A site for developers with over 18+ million questions, 28+ million answers, and 11+ million users.

Stack Overflow Stats — https://stackexchange.com/sites

A huge majority of developers use Stack Overflow on a daily basis and I would like to share my thoughts on

• Why do I contribute?
• How to contribute?
• What are the benefits of contributing?

My Stack Overflow Profile — https://stackoverflow.com/users/1225551/raf

I joined the Stack Overflow community in 2012 and my contributions in the form of answering questions peaked between Nov 2015 — Feb 2016 which attributes to a huge chunk of my reputation score.

• I have posted 168 answers and asked 22 questions with a people reach of roughly ~648K
• I have ~5.2K reputation in Stack Overflow, 792 in Drupal Answers and below 200 in other communities
• I have 27 helpful post edits, flags and cast a total of 585 upvote and downvotes

I am no rockstar contributor but, do I feel good about it? Of course! I feel great to have been able…