Robert King
Senior Program Manager at Self-Employed
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert King is a Senior Program Manager and seasoned engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building human-computer interfaces across a dozen languages and many platforms. Currently helping scale American Express’s enterprise accessibility program, he pairs deep expertise in accessibility (a11y) and internationalization (i18n) with a pragmatic history of shipping front-end frameworks and reusable web components at companies like PayPal and Wells Fargo. He’s equally comfortable writing build scripts, node.js services, or CSS frameworks, and has driven measurable business impact—most notably contributing to checkout optimizations that moved billions in transactions. An independent consultant and long-time open-source practitioner, he publishes code and tooling publicly and has reviewed technical books, reflecting a habit of learning and sharing beyond day-to-day delivery. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he brings a rare blend of standards-minded engineering, cross-cultural product thinking, and institutional mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Economics, AS, Economics at Richland Community CollegeBA, Philosophy, BA, Philosophy at Millikin University
English
Github Skills (13)
cascading9
linting8
gpx8
assistive-technology8
qbcore-framework8
stylesheets8
voiceover8
wcag7
linter6
user-interface5
accessibility5
lti2
yui1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hrobertking/roking-a11y
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
Accessibility tools
Contributions:121 commits, 4 PRs, 156 pushes in 3 years 6 months
user-interfaceqbcore-frameworkltia11yaccessibility-tools
hrobertking/thinking-about-web-accessibility
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:69 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 3 years
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