Ned Holbrook
Vice Chair, Emoji Working Group at Unicode Consortium
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNed Holbrook is a typographic engineer and seasoned software professional with nine years of experience, currently serving as Vice Chair of the Unicode Consortium's Emoji Working Group while holding a senior engineering role at Apple. He blends deep typographic and character-encoding expertise with hands-on software development, shaping how emojis and text render across platforms. Based in Portland, Oregon, Ned leverages a Dartmouth computer science background to navigate standards work, product constraints, and cross-industry interoperability. His dual role at a major tech company and an influential standards body gives him a rare perspective on both implementation and policy for global text systems.
9 years of coding experience
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (55)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
unicode-org/unicodetools
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
home of unicodetools and https://util.unicode.org JSPs
Contributions:88 reviews, 22 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year 11 months
utilicuunicode
macchiati/images
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 reviews in 6 days
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