Spencer Kelly
Software Developer at City of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Kelly is a software developer with 14 years of experience building pragmatic NLP, data analytics, and visualization systems across public sector and startups. He currently applies his expertise to transportation data and analytics for the City of Toronto, after roles focused on grammatical and medical-text analysis, time/date interpretation, and constraint-based infographic layout. Spencer is a long-time maintainer of the wtf_wikipedia parser—evidence of his attention to robust text parsing and real-world open-source impact. Comfortable across back-end engineering and applied data science, he translates messy natural language into structured, actionable insights. Based in Old Toronto with a BA in Philosophy, he brings a thoughtful, internet-optimist perspective to engineering problems and a knack for turning linguistic nuance into reliable software.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy at University of Victoria
Stackoverflow
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13answers
3questions
cors
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google-cloud-platform
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
maintenance10
google-cloud-functions10
text-processing10
google-maps10
google-maps-api10
google-cloud-platform9
apim9
cors9
api9
filepath6
go6
nodejs6
dictionary6
wiktionary6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spencermountain/wtf_wikipedia
Nov 2014 - Jan 2023
a pretty-committed wikipedia markup parser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Maintainer
Back-end Developer & MaintainerContributions:36 releases, 2 reviews, 1373 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Spencer appears to be primarily responsible for maintaining and extending the wtf_wikipedia project by actively modifying the code and fixing various issues. The commits demonstrate efforts to support new infoboxes and category features. Furthermore, the user is clearly focused on addressing bugs and enhancing the overall functionality of the parsing library.
wikipediamarkupwikipedia-markup-parserparserwiki
nlp-compromise/nlp-ngram
Jan 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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