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Jim is a well known and acknowledged expert and visionary in Open Source and IT, an accomplished coder (in numerous languages) and frequent presenter/interviewee/consultant on all things Web and Cloud related. He is best known as one of the developers and co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation and has served as President and Chairman. He also served on the board, as well as President, for the Outercurve Foundation and was a director for the Open Source Initiative ( OSI ). Jim works for Salesforce as
Jim graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1983 with a BES in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science. While at Hopkins, he was one of the student SysAdmins for the Engineering school's PDP-11 and VAX computer. This is where he got his first taste of C and UNIX and networks.
After getting his BES, Jim went to work for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as an engineer. His main tasks were in modeling, simulation and analysis of spacecraft power systems. At GSFC, he was an early convert to the Macintosh (his PC of choice even today). When Apple released their first version of UNIX, called A/UX , Jim quickly became a known expert in that OS. He was the editor of the FAQ for A/UX , and Apple would even have people contact Jim if they had A/UX questions. It was his association with
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