About James Ward
Bio:
Professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. A Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot who often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. Currently a Developer Advocate for AWS.
Professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. A Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot who often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. Currently a Developer Advocate for AWS.
Things I'm Really Proud Of:
- Co-Authored Effect Oriented Programming with Bruce Eckel & Bill Frasure
- Presented at numerous developer conferences around the world
- Kotlin Foundation Treasurer since 2023
- Recognized as a Testcontainers Community Champion in 2023
- Recognized as a Java Champion in 2021
- Led Salesforce's Open Source Program Office 2017-2018
- Helped define The Reactive Manifesto in 2014
- Created WebJars in 2012
- Co-authored First Steps in Flex with Bruce Eckel in 2008
- Created the first Java hosting service in 1997
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Contact Me:
Work: jwdev <at> amazon <dot> com
Personal: james <at> jamesward <dot> com