Brendan Nee

Principal at Blinktag

Brendan loves cities and technology. His background in transportation engineering and programming gives him a unique ability to solve planning and transportation problems through web-based maps, open data, interactive tools and APIs. He’s been playing with the web for so long he can remember when Netscape was king and the blink tag rocked his world!

With twenty years of experience in web development and programming, Brendan’s technical expertise is specialized in transportation data and maps. He has experience with GTFS, Google Maps, openStreetMaps, Mapbox, and other forms of geographic data. He has created open-source tools for managing transportation data including transit, bike routes, and walking tours.

Brendan has set up complex systems on top of mapping, displaying transportation data, and exploring interactive charts. Brendan also has extensive experience in api design, web application development and mobile app development with projects in node.js, javascript, python and PHP. His full-stack coding experience includes two decades of work with CSS, javascript, HTML, responsive design, cross-browser testing, React, and next.js.

Brendan has been a conference speaker on transportation technology, transportation engineering, mobile development, open data and developer platforms. He has published original research in the Journal of American Planning Association, and the North American Transportation Research Record.

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