Robert Kirkemo
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at MediaNews Group
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarRobert Kirkemo is a senior software engineering leader with over two decades of web development experience and more than a decade in progressive engineering leadership roles. Based in Denver, he currently oversees content engineering at MediaNews Group, building high-performing Scrum teams and shaping engineering practices across WordPress CMS and mobile app initiatives. He has led large-scale site redesigns and migrations—launching over 38 newspaper sites including major metros—while driving adoption of React, Docker, serverless patterns, and AWS DevOps for resilient production workflows. Known for quickly learning legacy systems and translating product strategy into delivery roadmaps, he pairs hands-on technical depth with mentoring and hiring to grow engineering talent. An early proponent of test-driven development and pragmatic automation, he brings a publisher-focused perspective that balances performance, SEO, and ad/analytics integration. Notably, his background includes building serverless tooling to manage configurations across dozens of sites, showing a knack for practical, scalable infrastructure solutions.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (9)
wordpress-plugin10
wpgraphql9
api9
wordpress9
graphql-api8
graphql8
gatsby8
rocket7
wp-api2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dfmedia/dfm-wp-public
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 month
bobkirkemo/youtube-training
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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