Carl Blakeley
Developer at OpenLink Software
High Peak, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCarl Blakeley is a seasoned developer with over 12 years focused on Linked Data, Semantic Web technologies and full-spectrum data access, currently leading development of the Virtuoso Sponger at OpenLink Software. His expertise spans Node.js, JavaScript, React and backend data integration with deep protocol and query-language knowledge (RDF, SPARQL, SQL, XSLT), earned over a long career building cross-platform database drivers and middleware. He combines hands-on C and Ruby systems work from early career projects with modern web stacks, bridging legacy RDBMS connectivity and cutting-edge knowledge graph solutions. Based in High Peak, England, Carl pairs academic grounding (MSc Computer Science) with practical authorship of technical whitepapers and long-term stewardship of Linked Data middleware that converts diverse non-RDF sources into interoperable RDF. Notably, his work on the Virtuoso Sponger underpins integrations with social and BI services, reflecting a knack for turning heterogeneous data into queryable knowledge graphs.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Physics, 2.1, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Physics, 2.1 at University of Wales - Institute of Science and TechnologyMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Manchester
Stackoverflow
31reputation
59reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (60)
sparql7
virtuoso7
oauth6
nodejs6
text-processing6
server6
linkedin-api6
linked-data6
authentication6
querying5
rdf5
query-language5
pods5
nette5
browser5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLinkSoftware/Grappa
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.