James Ward has been a professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. He is a Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot who often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. James is currently a Developer Advocate for AWS.
James' many achievements that include:
- Co-Authored Effect Oriented Programming with Bruce Eckel and Bill Frasure in 2024
- 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 the Salesforce 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