Kirsten Hunter
Kirsten Hunter is an unapologetic hacker and passionate advocate for the development community.
Her technical interests range from graph databases to cloud services, and her experience supporting and evangelizing REST APIs has given her a unique perspective on developer success. In her copious free time she’s a gamer, fantasy reader, and all around rabble-rouser.
Code samples, recipes, and philosophical musings can be found on Kirsten's blog, Princess Polymath.
Kirsten is an API Evangelist for Akamai. Check it out here. Kirsten tweets at @synedra.
Previous talk at Skills Matter - FullStack 2015.
Talks I've Given
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Git as a database
Featuring Kirsten Hunter
When consuming APIs or working with complex data in SCM systems or databases, frequently you want to grab the metadata and perform diff, grep, and other file-type comparisons on the data you’ve stored. Akamai’s API has a great way to access and update property metadata (management information for...
fullstackcon git database wiki api -
Becoming a Polyglot
Featuring Kirsten Hunter
Many people understand the very basics of several languages, all the way to HelloWorld. However, this isn’t a full fledged application and it’s challenging to make the translations in your head between all the different dialects (interpreted languages aren’t really different from each other like...
fullstack languages perl ruby php python node -
Wrangling the Internet of Things using Node.js
Featuring Kirsten Hunter
Kirsten has created a system, available on Github, which interacts with Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, and Withings, to create a health tracking system. The Fitbit API is used to store and retrieve data, and that data is used to create analytics and history. More importantly, though, this system allows...
github fitbit myfitnesspal withings twilio fitbit-api