TL;DR
Entrepreneur and a runner who loves to build companies, developers and applications.
Ido has been working in technology since 1994, and he is the co-founder and CTO of ESGgo.
From 2020 to 2022, he was a senior manager at Facebook, leading the Rooms Foundation teams and helping engineers to be more productive and effective.
From 2018 to 2020, he was VP of technology at JFrog, connecting the dots between technology and business while leading the partners’ engineering and IoT teams.
Before, he was director of engineering at Netflix, leading product excellence and testing efforts. Previously, he was the lead developer advocate at Google converging the Google Assistant platform. Before he joined Google, Ido was the founder and CTO of High Gear Media (sold to Internet Brands).
Ido was also the Co-Founder of ApicaGreen Hedge Fund – a U.S. long-short equities hedge fund that uses cutting-edge search technologies.
Ido’s academic life where mainly in Tel Aviv. He did a B.Sc. in Computers with a specialty in networks and algorithms and M.Sc. in Business Administration with Magna Cum Laude.
His book “Web Workers – Multithreaded Programs in JavaScript” can help you sleep better!
A bit more?
Here is some of the fields I’m curious about:
- Startups – helping entrepreneurs with a course I did with Udacity or “Zen of Monetization” series on youtube.
- OpenWeb technologies / hacking web apps and another course on optimizing web forms.
- ChromeOS – Which I had the pleasure to be the first developer advocate for it.
- Mobile development
- HTML5 (e.g. WebWorkers, web databases, indexedDB )
- JavaScript
- Data mining and problems with ‘Big Data’ (e.g. Hacking around Yahoo finance API)
- Design/Amazing UIs
- Java and some PHP
What I love doing in my free time?
- Ironman(s)
- Cycling (From Mountain biking to Road to Gravel)
- Running – “Where the mind is willing, the body will follow”.
- Snowboarding
- Orienteering
- For more around the social channels: @greenido or LinkedIn
Life – lots of challenges come with lots of narrow paths to cross.
Ido Green 
Thank you for this post:
https://greenido.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/yahoo-finance-hidden-api/
but i was wondering if u know how to fetch the type of currency it is. For example, http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^N225. NIKKEI 225 is in JPY but i havent been able to fetch that information using yahoo
Thanks in advance!!
Regards,
jason
Jason – I guess you refer to this post:
https://greenido.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/yahoo-finance-hidden-api/
so it would be better to put the question over there next time – so other reader could find it.
Any way, if you check: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^N225 it will work and give you a page with data. Moreover, on historic data just use something like this format:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=N225&a=01&b=19&c=2010&d=01&e=19&f=2010&g=d
Good luck.
Hello Ido, I also have a question about your Yahoo hidden API page. Comments are closed on that page and so I am posting here.
I realize that it has been a long time since you posted that blog, but I was wondering about your SQL statements at the bottom of the post.
Were you implying supplying the SQL statements directly to Yahoo (in some sort of YQL REST request) or were you using some local DB that you had imported the downloaded CSV to?
Thanks
Paul.
Hey Paul,
No worries. The comments on posts are closed after 90 days to prevent spam.
As for your question. You can do both! If you wish to ‘test’ the API try something online with YQL console on the other hand, you can run this on your local database (or downloaded CSV).
Good luck!
Kind of interested in how your wife disagrees with 90% of your Yahoo Finance API post. ;p
Thanks for making it though.
Thanks and New Suggestion for your “Design” Page
Hi Ido,
First off, I wanted to say thank you for putting together the “Design” page on your site (https://greenido.wordpress.com/category/design/). There are some really useful links/resources on there.
Also, there’s a guide by SuperSummary called the “Free eBook Download Guide” (http://www.supersummary.com/ebook-download-guide/) that I thought your visitors would find helpful. Perhaps it would be worth adding it to your list of resources? Let me know what you think.
In any case, hopefully I’m not bothering you. Have a great day!
Best,
Colleen