Summary
Jon Kirkman is a software engineering manager with 13 years of experience building teams and products across startups and enterprise environments, now leading engineering at Invitation Homes. He combines product-focused problem solving with hands-on architecture experience—launching low-code platforms, persona-driven AI products, and a microservice billing system handling over $1B annually. Jon has a track record scaling teams (4→15 engineers), instituting SDLC and career frameworks, and driving cloud migrations and observability standards. Technically fluent in Go, Dart, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS, he moves comfortably between backend systems, real-time platforms, and developer productivity tooling. He mentors engineers into higher-impact roles while advising on architecture and deployments to increase project success. Based in the Greater Logan Area, he brings a designer’s sensibility from earlier creative roles to pragmatic, user-focused platform engineering.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Oregon State University
English