Andy Piper
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Piper is a maker and seasoned developer advocate with 22 years bridging humans and technology across startups, enterprise and open-source communities. He led developer relations for Twitter’s API for nine years, helped grow Cloud Foundry communities, and co-led the Eclipse Paho MQTT project—bringing deep experience in developer platforms, APIs and IoT protocols. Equally comfortable writing sample code in JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Java or improving docs and front-end sites, he pairs technical fluency with clear, user-focused storytelling. A community-builder and event organiser, he volunteers on and runs unconference crews, podcasts about tech culture, and champions diversity and the open web. Based in London, he combines a historian’s training from Oxford with pragmatic consulting experience (including helping the UK Post Office through Y2K) to translate complex technical problems into practical outcomes.
22 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Modern History, British political history, European history (19th and 20th century empires), Commonwealth history, Modern History, British political history, European history (19th and 20th century empires), Commonwealth history at University of OxfordA levels, English Literature, History, Classics, A levels, English Literature, History, Classics at The Portsmouth Grammar School
English, Polish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
apim10
javascript10
maintenance10
twitter10
package-management10
python10
api-design10
api-client10
mqtt10
twitter-api10
homebrew10
mastodon10
api10
front-end-development10
html10
Programming languages (38)
Github contributions (5)
xdevplatform/Twitter-API-v2-sample-code
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Sample code for the Twitter API v2 endpoints
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 35 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to implementing sample code for the Twitter API v2 endpoints. Their work involved developing Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and Python samples, demonstrating a diverse skillset. They added functionality for follower, following, full-archive search, managing likes, and managing mutes, extending the sample code's coverage of the Twitter API. The user also fixed pagination in JavaScript samples and made various revisions across the different sample code files.
apipythonjavascriptendpointsruby
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
May 2012 - Aug 2014
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andy contributed to the Homebrew formulas for various software packages. Their work involved updating the versions and related configurations for `mosquitto`, `RabbitMQ`, and `speedtest_cli`. The changes included modifying URLs for downloads, updating checksums, and adjusting dependencies within the formula files. This suggests a focus on maintaining the software packages available through Homebrew.
macoshomebrew
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