Kirk Kirkconnell
Principal AI Data Developer Technologist
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Kirkconnell is a Principal AI Data Developer Technologist with 10+ years blending databases, data engineering, and AI to build practical, production-ready solutions. He has steered developer advocacy and product strategy across leading platform vendors—AWS, Redis, Couchbase, MongoDB, Fauna, and Oracle—translating deep technical knowledge into approachable content, workshops, and product feedback. Known for treating "data + AI" as a unified system rather than separate silos, he focuses on making databases and ML workflows work together reliably at scale. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, Kirk pairs hands-on architecture and ops experience from large enterprise environments with a knack for developer enablement and documentation. He brings a curious, pragmatic mindset—“stay hungry, stay foolish”—and a track record of improving discoverability and adoption through better docs, SEO, and community engagement.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, BFA at Shepherd University
German
Github Skills (18)
objective-c10
ios10
xcode10
carthage10
swift10
macos10
cocoapods10
java9
photopicker8
facebook7
camera6
sdwebimage6
image5
ios-framework4
video-processing4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kk07self/LearnOpenGL
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:61 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
kk07self/kk_chat
Jun 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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