James Gough

Jim is a developer trainer and author primarily focused on Java. I started programming when I was 6 and started programming in Java during my degree at the University of Warwick. It is fair to say I got hooked on the productivity of the language. Since then I have spent the majority of my career in finance building Java applications and for several years teaching technology graduate training programs. I currently work in developing API and gateway technology. I have always been driven by community and contributed towards the JSR 310 date time library introduction in Java 8, have been a member of the Executive Committee of the JCP on behalf of the LJC and I am an LJC associate. I am the author of Optimizing Java with Ben Evans.