John Kennedy
Founder at Digital Nature
Ireland
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Top SchoolJohn Kennedy is a founder, software engineer and data analyst with 11 years of experience specialising in extracting actionable insights from geospatial data for environmental, biodiversity and sustainability applications. He combines enterprise-grade software and architecture expertise gained over two decades at Intel with research leadership in cloud and edge computing standards, optimisation and dependability. Since completing an M.Sc. in Geocomputation in 2020 he has delivered data-driven projects for government bodies, NGOs, local authorities and SMEs through his company Digital Nature and roles at BirdWatch Ireland. Notable for bridging applied research and production systems, he has led Horizon 2020 and standardisation collaborations while designing decision-support systems for semiconductor manufacturing. He brings a rare mix of field-focused geospatial analytics and deep systems-level knowledge of open cloud and edge platforms.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc. in Computing, M. Sc. in Computing at Technological University DublinGrad. Dip., Grad. Dip. at Institute of Technology, BlanchardstownM. Sc., M. Sc. at Maynooth UniversityB. Eng, B. Eng at Dublin City University
Github Skills (46)
raster10
gdal10
geospatial10
mapping-tools10
mappings10
geo10
geos10
geography10
spatial10
maps10
r9
epub9
gitbook9
latex9
bookdown9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
digitalnature-ie/igr
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
An R Package to convert between Irish grid references and Irish Grid coordinates or an sf object
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 30 pushes in 7 months
jkennedyie/osm-irish-townlands
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
pythontraditionaldjangoirishweb-application
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