I am CTO at US-based startup mValent where I was part of the founding team. I spend most of the year in Boston, but some of the time in London and some of the time in Perth, Western Australia.
Prior to mValent, I spent a number of years in the US working for Bowstreet as Director, XML Technology. I spoke on XML and Web Services at numerous conferences in North America and Europe during this time.
I was involved in the W3C's XML Activity as an invited expert from the very beginning in 1996 and was Bowstreet's representative to the W3C and OASIS where I served on numerous working groups and technical committees (and was chair of the OASIS DSML TC).
In 2000, Network World named me one of 50 on power's edge (I guess I've fallen off the edge since :-).
I developed and continue to run the websites Quisition, Cats or Dogs and, most recently, Potter Predictions. I also have a few new ones not yet released, including habitualist and Year5.
I have also been developing open source software since 1993 (before it was called “open source”) and most recently have been working on reusable Django apps.
I am a member of the Python Software Foundation and serve on the Board of Directors. I also coordinated the Python Software Foundation's contribution to the Google Summer of Code in 2007 and will be doing so again in 2008.
When not working with software startups, websites and open source software, I'm an aspiring film producer and cinematographer, composer, mathematician and linguist.
I am currently pursuing a PhD in linguistics at the University of Essex researching the inflectional morphology of Ancient Greek.
I am a journeyman of some.
Last Modified: April 28, 2008
Author: jtauber