About Niall O’Higgins
355 lbs deadlift
Education
Niall O’Higgins lives and works in San Francisco. He studied French and Computer Science at University College Dublin, where he didn’t do so badly and had an interesting time – even getting to spend a year at Paris X university reading French literature. This all resulted in him holding a B.A. International in French and Computer Science.
P2P Researcher
He has a strong interest in P2P technology. He is a co-founder of the P2P Research Institute, where he writes articles, conducts large-scale crawling and quantitative analysis of P2P networks and authors a simple, efficient and portable BitTorrent implementation written in C, released under a BSD license.
OpenBSD Developer
He’s been an active developer of the OpenBSD project since 2005 where his contributions include the rum 802.11b wireless driver (with Damien Bergamini), large file support for ext2fs and major portions of the OpenRCS and OpenCVS sub-projects.
Semantic Web Developer
He is employed at Metaweb Technologies where he gets to work on all the problems you might imagine are involved with creating a public database of all the world’s knowledge.
Technology Event Organiser
He founded the San Francisco-based monthly Web Technology meet-up, PyWebSF.
Jazz, Fitness and Martial Arts nut
Outside of technology, he enjoys playing Jazz guitar, cooking and staying fit through boxing, Krav Maga, Cross Fit and bicycling.
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