Tim Bray
Canadian software developer
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May 2020 | Left AWS after expressing dismay over the company's treatment of warehouse worker whistleblowers during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite holding a vice president rank. |
May 2020 | Quit Amazon Web Services due to concerns over the termination of whistleblowers, demonstrating his commitment to ethical workplace practices. |
2019 | Bray became the only VP-level Amazon employee to sign a shareholder letter calling for Amazon Web Services to stop supporting oil extraction, highlighting his commitment to environmental causes. |
April 18 2018 | Tim Bray was arrested for contempt of court during a demonstration against the Trans Mountain Pipeline at the Burnaby, Canada site, marking his active involvement in environmental activism. |
December 2014 | Joined Amazon Web Services as an employee, beginning his work with the cloud computing giant. |
March 2014 | Bray served as editor of RFC 7159, a specification of the JSON Data Interchange Format that revised previous standards and highlighted interoperability best practices. |
March 2014 | Left Google, unwilling to relocate from Vancouver to Silicon Valley. |
2013 | Bray began working with the IETF JSON Working Group. |
2010 | Joined Google as a developer advocate, initially focusing on Android and later on identity technologies like OAuth and OpenID. |
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