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Tim Bray

Co-editor of the XML specification; blogger at ongoing; AWS VP who quit in 2020.

• Tim Bray is a Canadian software developer who co-edited the XML and XML Namespaces specifications at the W3C, co-chaired the IETF's Atom working group and edited the JSON RFCs 7159 and 8259.
• He co-founded Open Text and founded Antarctica Systems, then worked at Sun Microsystems, Google and Amazon Web Services, where as a VP and distinguished engineer he worked on SQS, SNS, Step Functions and EventBridge.
• He left AWS in 2020 over Amazon's firing of employees who had raised warehouse-safety concerns.
• He has written the blog ongoing for decades and is an environmental activist.

Key facts

Born

21 June 1955, Alberta, Canada2

Amazon Web Services

Senior Principal Technologist, then VP and Distinguished Engineer, from December 2014 to April 2020 (Wikipedia says May 2020; his own page says April)1

Google

From March 2010 to March 20141

Roles at Sun and Google

Director of Web Technologies at Sun; developer advocate at Google, on Android and then identity (OAuth, OpenID)2

Sun Microsystems

From March 2004 to February 20101

Standards

Co-editor of XML (1996–1999, W3C invited expert); W3C Technical Architecture Group (2001–2004); co-chair of the IETF Atompub working group; editor of JSON RFC 7159 and RFC 82592

Companies

Co-founder of Open Text Corporation (1989); founder of Antarctica Systems (1999)2

Now

Semi-retired; advisor to Yalo and Zus Healthcare Technologies; Invited Expert to the US FTC in its case against Meta from 2023 to May 20251

Education

BSc in mathematics and computer science, University of Guelph (1981)2

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