David Kirkland
Enterprise IAM at The Walt Disney Company
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Kirkland is an Enterprise IAM and software leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems and guiding large organizations through Agile and SAFe transformations. He has led high-impact modernization efforts—rebuilding legacy apps into RESTful, containerized architectures on AWS/Azure and improving availability to 99.9% while shrinking costs and attack surface. As a former VP and director-level engineering leader, he combines technical depth (React, Elixir, Kubernetes, DevOps) with proven change management skills that grew teams and recruitment ROI dramatically. He runs a long-standing web services business, Nerd Warehouse, giving him direct operational and customer-facing experience beyond enterprise roles. PMP-, SAFe-, and AWS-certified, he is equally comfortable in the server-side codebase and the executive briefing room. Known for translating complex regulatory and business needs into pragmatic, auditable solutions, he brings a pragmatic innovator’s mindset to identity and access initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Technological Entrepreneurship and Management Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Technological Entrepreneurship and Management Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Arizona State UniversityAssociates Computer Science, Associates Computer Science at Glendale Community College
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Github Skills (50)
selector10
combobox10
listbox10
logger9
pino9
json9
typescript9
vue-select9
vue-component9
vue9
winston9
extensible9
vue-datepicker9
logging8
directive8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vitamink/Rei.Random
Jun 2014 - Jul 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes in 5 years 1 month
vitamink/forge
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
A native implementation of TLS in Javascript and tools to write crypto-based and network-heavy webapps
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
cryptographysecurityjavascripttlscrypto
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