I currently live in Boston, but spend some of the time in London and some of the time in Perth, Western Australia, where I am originally from.
I am the co-founder, CEO and CTO of Eldarion, a startup focused on building Web applications using Pinax and Django.
Before that, I was CTO at US-based startup mValent where I was part of the founding team. mValent was sold to Oracle in February 2009.
Prior to mValent, I spent a number of years for Bowstreet as Director, XML Technology. While there I spoke at many conferences and participated in numerous standards groups relating to XML. Prior to Bowstreet, I spent time working in universities both as an academic and in administration.
In 2000, Network World named me one of 50 on power's edge (I guess I've fallen off the edge since :-).
I have been developing open source software since 1993 (before it was called “open source”) and, for the last two years, have been working with Django. I am the creator and lead developer of Pinax.
I am a member of the Python Software Foundation and serve on the Board of Directors and as chair of the Trademarks Committee. I also coordinated the Python Software Foundation's contribution to the Google Summer of Code in 2007 and 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 on leave from a PhD in linguistics at the University of Essex where I was researching the inflectional morphology of Ancient Greek.
I am a journeyman of some.
Last Modified: June 29, 2009
Author: James Tauber