Donald Kirker
IT Client Support Specialist II at City of Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Kirker is an experienced software engineer and IT client support specialist with 15 years building communications, mobile, and embedded systems—especially IoT, wearable computing, and telecommunications stacks. He has blended hands-on firmware and driver work (C/C++) with higher-level integrations for platforms like SmartThings, shaping device certification, capability standards, and partner-facing processes. Comfortable across Linux, web engines, mobile platforms and RF systems, he’s known for troubleshooting in the field—from base station deployments overseas to city public-safety radio systems in Sunnyvale. Donald’s background spans startup founders’ grit to corporate dev-rel and lab engineering, and he often serves as the technical bridge between partners, developers, and product teams. Notably, he pairs deep protocol and radio experience (GSM, DMR, PTToC, VoIP) with practical CI/tooling skills (Git, Jenkins, CircleCI), enabling reliable device-onboarding at scale.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (56)
webos10
iot-application10
twitter-client10
twitter10
tuya10
smartapp10
python10
handlers10
upnp10
open-source10
internet-of-things10
tasmota10
hue10
iot10
holochain10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dkirker/certbot-dns-name-com
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
A certbot DNS plugin for name.com
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 2 tags in 2 years
cert-managerdnscertbotcertbot-dns-plugincertbot-dns
openmobl/Universe-Mojo
Apr 2011 - Feb 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 5 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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