Niall Kennedy
Technical Advisor, Apple Platforms
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNiall Kennedy is a platform API engineering leader with 15+ years building and advising developer ecosystems at Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and other major consumer platforms. He specializes in designing, implementing, and operating large-scale APIs and partner programs that require cross-functional coordination across product, engineering, legal, and business teams. At Google he led identity and payments partner engineering efforts and now advises Apple platform teams, blending deep technical chops with product and strategic thinking. Niall’s background includes consulting for enterprises like American Express and contributing to widely used open-source integrations such as the Facebook for WordPress plugin, where he improved internationalization, Open Graph markup, and analytics hooks. He’s known for forging long-term developer relationships, translating stakeholder goals into practical platform decisions, and relishing complex, detail-oriented technical challenges. Based in San Francisco with a BA in Economics and Computer Science from UCLA, he pairs executive collaboration skills with hands-on engineering.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish, Irish
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Github Skills (6)
wordpress10
php10
gettext10
internationalization9
google-analytics7
javascript7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/wordpress
May 2012 - Apr 2014
Adds Facebook-powered social features to your WordPress site themes and publishing flow.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:519 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Niall primarily worked on the Facebook for WordPress plugin. Their contributions focused on improving the plugin's internationalization capabilities by wrapping strings in `gettext` for translation support and absolute pathing. The user also implemented code to handle the Facebook application's access token and implemented a Google Analytics integration. Furthermore, the user improved the Open Graph markup generated by the plugin and introduced a series of improvements to the internal workings of the plugin.
wordpress
twitter/wordpress
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
The official Twitter plugin for WordPress. Embed Twitter content and grow your audience on Twitter.
Contributions:2 releases, 114 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 11 months
twitterwordpresstwitter-pluginphptwitter-cards
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