About Kaj Kandler
Kaj Kandler is a Knowledge Graph Optimization expert. He works with Coaches and Public Speakers on personal branding. Kaj helps people to build a consistent brand that search engines understand. A search engine like Google Search will recognize the consistent information as factual.
In 2024, Mr. Kandler founded Entity Garden helping people and businesses to elevate their brand in the Google Knowledge Graph.
Upcoming
WBS Coding School - Alumni Talk
On Nevember 15th, Kaj Kandler will present "Data to fame: Kaj's playbook for building a powerful online brand".
Join Kaj Kandler, founder of Entity Garden and a graduate of our Data Science bootcamp, as he reveals how the program equipped him to reshape his career and enhance his online presence. Kaj will break down his top 4 strategies for becoming "Google Famous", including tips on web scraping, NLP (Natural Language Processing), and mastering personal branding. Learn how to build a powerful digital identity that gets you noticed by employers and clients alike.
Don’t miss this chance to gain actionable insights from someone who’s been there!
Sign up to the presentation via Meetup, Nov 15.th 10AM.
Current Interests
Google Knowledge Graph
Currently, Kaj Kandler is interested in the Google Knowledge Graph. He works on a metric to measure notability in the Google Search Engine Results Page (SERP). He develops a process for notable people to become visible in search engines through rich knowledge graph panels and knowledge graph cards.
Schema Markup
Besides his interest in the knowledge graph, he created "Missing Entities". Missing Entities is a website that teaches schema markup for entities that are not so common. The website provides a generator for schema markup that is ready to copy and paste into your own code.
Work History
Kaj Kandler currently works as a personal brand coach. He assists coaches and public speakers to achieve fame on Google Search. He is an expert in optimizing your online brand for the Google Knowledge Graph. He writes about search engine optimization, Google knowledge graph, Google knowledge panels, structured data, and schema markup.
You can also find Mr. Kandler's work history here or at his Profile on LinkedIn: [Kaj Kandler (born Zilli)]](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kajkandler/) or on Xing.
Articles published
Data Science
Mr. Kandler's most recent article "Jupyter Notebook to Data Pipeline" was published on Medium. It describes Kaj's observations from building an automated data pipeline using Python, Jupyther Notebooks, and AWS for automation.
This article was written during "Data Science Bootcamp" which Kaj Kandler attended 2022/2023.
360 Manager experience
In 2020 Kaj Kandler published an article in two parts about his experience in 15Five's "Best Self and Upward's Review". This review is a comprehensive stakeholder review to improve management performance in an organization. In the articles Kaj chronicals his insights he gained personally and professionally going through this process while working as a software development manager at NewStore
Part One "Manager review — Visualize to get the full picture" describes the process derived from Google's 13 famous Manager feedback questions. It further shows how Mr. Kandler visualized the data to gain clarity on the review scores.
In part two "Manager review — How to dig for gold" Kaj Kandler expands on the visualization of the data and how to gain even deeper insides when a not so common chart type is selected.
Conferences
JUC West 2015
In 2015 Kaj kandler gave a presentation about "Developing Enterprise-Ready Plugins" at the Jenkins User Conference U.S. West. Mr. kandler presented what he and his team at Black Duck Software learned developing the "Jenkins Plugin for Black Duck Software". The plugin allowed "Open Source Discovery" as part of a Jenkins build pipeline.
Sapphire 1995
While at SAP Mr. Kandler presented at the annual SAP Users Conference, called SAPPHIRE. It's such a long time ago that he does not remember what the presentation was all about. Mr. Kandler just remembesr that he was intimidated by the size of the audience of ~400 people in a big auditorium. While he was used to giving a training in front of 10 -20 people, such a big audience did scare him as a young engineer. He remembers to this day how making a joke as the opening of the presentation did engage the audience to listen to what he had to say.
Mr. kandler attended SAPPHIRE again in 1996. However, he did not give a presentation, but was part of the staff at the booth. Mr. kandler was part of the new team informing SAP customers about the brand-new module SAP Environmental, Health & Safety (SAP EH&S).
Various Profile Pages
Kaj Kandler was one of the early adopters of the World Wide Web. He remembers the early days of Netscape 1.0 and he published websites for friends and family. He also joined social networks, such as LinkedIn, Xing, Medium or Facebook, early on.
Search a list of Kaj's Profile Pages if you like to connect with him or see his work.