Dan Brickley
Owner at Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Brickley is a veteran technologist and founder with 24 years’ experience designing data standards, semantic web and graph technologies, currently running SpyPixel and returning from a full-time parenting break to pursue consultancy, collaborations and product work. He led Schema.org stewardship at Google’s DevRel and Open Source Programs Office and remains a founding contributor to the independent Schema.org initiative that powers structured markup across millions of sites. His career spans W3C work on RDF and the early Semantic Web, co-creating FOAF in 2000, through research and industry roles at VU Amsterdam, Joost and the UN FAO—bridging standards, research and product engineering. Comfortable across developer relations, standards engineering and AI/data-focused projects, he’s open to London or remote-first roles in 2025 (Canary Wharf preferred). Less obvious: he pairs deep protocol-level expertise with hands-on product instincts, having moved between grassroots open standards and large-scale platform engagement for decades.
24 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Chichester CollegeBSc Sociology and Philosophy, BSc Sociology and Philosophy at University of Bristol
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
semantic-web10
schema10
client-library10
doi10
uri10
neural-network10
lighthouse10
serializer10
data-science10
audit10
auditing10
schema-org10
deep-neural-networks10
python10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
foaf/foaf
Jul 2001 - Jul 2017
Contributions:789 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 16 years 3 months
specification
danbri/schemaorg
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
Schema.org on app engine
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 comments in 5 years 10 months
schema-validationapp-engineschema-org
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