Timothy William Bray was born on June 21,1955 and is a Canadian software developer, environmentalist, political activist and one of the co-authors of the original XML specification.
24 Facts About Tim Bray
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Tim Bray worked for Amazon Web Services from December 2014 until May 2020 when he quit due to concerns over the terminating of whistleblowers.
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Tim Bray was born on June 21,1955 in Alberta, Canada where his father worked for the Dominion Experimental Farm Service in Fort Vermilion.
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Tim Bray grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, and returned to Canada to attend school at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.
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Tim Bray graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science, double majoring in mathematics and computer Science.
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Tim Bray described his switch of focus from math to computer science this way:.
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Tim Bray joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Toronto as a software specialist.
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Tim Bray joined the New Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in 1987 as its manager.
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Tim Bray co-founded Antarctica Systems - in 2002, during his tenure as CEO for Antarctica, Tim Bray was included in Upside magazine's elite 100 list, alongside other IT leaders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison.
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Tim Bray was director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems from early 2004 to early 2010.
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Tim Bray joined Google as a developer advocate in 2010 focusing on Android, and then on technologies related to identity, such as OAuth and OpenID.
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Tim Bray left Google in March 2014, unwilling to relocate to Silicon Valley from Vancouver.
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Tim Bray started working for Amazon Web Services in December 2014.
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Tim Bray left AWS in May 2020, after being dismayed by their treatment of whistleblowers who had raised concerns over the safety of warehouse workers in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Tim Bray had held the vice president rank, stating on his blog that "VPs shouldn't go publicly rogue", and had much praise for AWS, yet he wasn't pleased about his co-workers being fired.
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Tim Bray left the new OED project in 1989 to co-found Open Text Corporation with two colleagues.
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Tim Bray was contracted by Netscape in 1999, along with Ramanathan V Guha, in part to create a new version of the Meta Content Framework called Resource Description Framework, which used the XML language.
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Tim Bray has contributed to standards in technology, particularly Web standards at the World Wide Web Consortium.
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In 2001, Tim Bray wrote an article called Taxi to the Future for Xml.
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Until October 2007, Tim Bray was co-chair, with Paul Hoffman, of the Atom-focused Atompub Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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Tim Bray worked with the IETF JSON Working Group in 2013 and 2014, serving as editor of RFC 7159, a specification of the JSON Data Interchange Format which revised RFC 4627 and highlighted interoperability best practices, released in March 2014.
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Tim Bray edited RFC 8259, a further revision of JSON.
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Tim Bray participated in an open letter from business leaders to the British Columbia government and was a public voice against the project.
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In 2019, Tim Bray was the only VP-level Amazon employee to sign a letter to Amazon shareholders calling for a stop to Amazon Web Services' support for oil extraction.