Andy Piper
Andy Piper is widely known as a Social Bridgebuilder and speaker, and is a Staff Developer Advocate at Twitter. His passions span a wide variety of areas: cloud, devops, mobile devices, the Internet of Things, Arduino and similar technologies, social computing, education, LEGO, and photography. He is based in London, UK.
Andy was previously with Pivotal as Developer Advocate for Cloud Foundry; and with IBM Software Group for more than 10 years, as a consultant, strategist, and WebSphere Messaging Community Lead. He has 15 years of experience consulting in enterprise software, has contributed to many Open Source projects, and has helped to organise and run a variety of hackdays, unconferences, and other events. He has been a regular contributor on a number of technology-related podcasts, and project lead and developer on the Eclipse Paho lightweight messaging project.
Andy holds a Master of Arts (Oxf) in Modern History from Brasenose College, Oxford University, and is a member of bcs, the Chartered Institute for IT.
Andy tweets at @andypiper.
Talks I've Given
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Supercharging your Android app release with fastlane
Featuring Andy Piper
How would you like 2 extra hours of your time back every week? All mobile app developers face similar workflows as they work to upload an app to Google Play. Many of these processes are currently done manually, but why not automate them? Fabric’s set of developer tools, collectively called...
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Introducing MQTT
Featuring Andy Piper
MQ Telemetry Transport is a protocol designed particularly with the Internet of Things in mind - it's small, lightweight, and works well over unreliable or low-bandwidth networks. Andy Piper will present an overview of where MQTT came from, how to use it, and the many places in which it is...
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