Robert Kirkman
Technical Director - Digital Solutions at CONSOR Engineers
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Kirkman is a strategic technical director and geospatial leader with 8+ years of recent experience and a three-decade career designing and modernizing enterprise GIS, asset management, and smart-city systems. He builds high-performing teams and repeatable processes that turn complex public-sector requirements into operational technology—once translating a government mandate into production within four months. Comfortable from hands-on DevOps (contributing stability fixes to Termux package builds) to executive strategy, he blends technical fluency with clear communication, from technical manuals to public speaking. His work spans consulting, productization of planning workflows into SaaS, and KPI-driven dashboards that modernize business systems. Trained in smart cities at MIT and holding advanced degrees in management of science & technology and geography, he pairs domain expertise in resiliency and natural hazards with a practical obsession for efficiency and data.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasSmart Cities: Technology Meets Urban Design, Smart Cities: Technology Meets Urban Design at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.S. Management of Science & Technology, M.S. Management of Science & Technology at Oregon Health & Science UniversityM.A. (inc.) Geography - Hazards Perception, M.A. (inc.) Geography - Hazards Perception at University of Oregon
Github Skills (13)
linux10
build-system10
termux10
packager10
package10
android10
scripting9
automation9
automations9
shell9
script9
sh9
git8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
termux/termux-packages
Nov 2022 - Apr 2025
A package build system for Termux.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:130 reviews, 74 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on improving the build system and dependencies for the Termux package manager. Their contributions included updating Gradle versions, fixing build issues related to specific packages (CVS, lighttpd, fish, predict, vim-gtk), and integrating system library directories and pkgconfig directories into new pkgconf builds. They also addressed update settings for subversion and converted patches to symbolic links for vlc-qt. These changes aimed to improve build stability and maintainability.
chromebookvnc-serverlinux-distributionlinuxandroid
robertkirkman/termux-packages
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
robertkirkman termux-packages test commit staging area
Contributions:187 pushes, 59 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
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