Niall Kennedy

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Platform API Engineering Lead with over 20 years experience on both sides of the API…

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Volunteer Experience

  • Guide Dogs for the Blind Graphic

    Puppy raiser

    Guide Dogs for the Blind

    - Present 13 years 7 months

    Social Services

    Raise and train puppies from 2 months - 16 months of age as they prepare for life guiding a blind or visually disabled person.

Publications

  • Spidering Hacks

    O'Reilly Media

    Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in…

    Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content.

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Projects

  • AMP

    - Present

    Develop custom elements to display Twitter and Vine content on top of the AMP framework, optimized for fast and predictable loading on mobile displays.

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  • Microformats

    Semantic data added to HTML through an existing structure of classes. Power indexing data for people, events, reviews, products, tagged content, and more.

    Other creators
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  • Twitter plugin for WordPress

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    Package Twitter best practices for websites into an installable package for sites powered by the popular WordPress CMS software. Twitter Cards, embedded Tweets, embedded timelines, Tweet button, follow button, and advertising conversion tools integrated using extensible WordPress APIs and PHP libraries.

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  • Embedded Tweets

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    Distribute Twitter content to websites, iOS, and Android applications.

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  • Twitter Cards

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    Link summaries, content attribution, and iOS and Android application discovery for content shared on Twitter.

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  • Facebook Developers site

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    Rewrite of the Facebook Developers site using modern Facebook frameworks and design language. Search engine optimization, customer analytics, and social distribution features and functionality.

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  • Open Graph protocol

    Index structured web data expressed using RDFa Core 1.1 markup. Powers story summaries and shared objects on Facebook.com. Used by Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Windows 8, mixi, and other large implementers.

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  • Facebook plugin for WordPress

    Connect millions of WordPress sites with Facebook Platform. Open Graph object markup, social plugins, and Open Graph publishing integrated through extensible WordPress APIs.

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  • VideoPress

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    Video hosting and transcoding service hosted on WordPress.com infrastructure with deep integration into WordPress publishing for WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress sites.

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • Irish

    Elementary proficiency

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