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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