Dan Brickley
Owner at Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project
London, England, United Kingdom
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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.
25 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
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
schema10
uri10
neural-network10
lighthouse10
serializer10
audit10
auditing10
schema-org10
deep-neural-networks10
python10
operator-overloading10
seo10
ml10
csv10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
danbri/schemarama
Nov 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:8 pushes in 5 years 1 month
schemaorg/schemaorg
Mar 2014 - Oct 2022
Schema.org - schemas and supporting software
Contributions:19 reviews, 2669 commits, 576 PRs in 8 years 8 months
json-ldjsonldschema-orgrdfschemas
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