James Lewis
Director
James Lewis is a programmer and Director at Thoughtworks based in the UK. He’s proud to have been a part of Thoughtworks’ journey for 19 years and of its ongoing mission to deliver technical excellence for its clients and to revolutionize the IT industry. As a member of the group that creates the Technology Radar, he contributes to industry adoption of open source and other tools, techniques, platforms and languages.
James defined the new Microservices architectural style back in 2014 along with Martin Fowler. Ten years on, the Microservices architectural style has revolutionized the way the world builds software. James’ primary consulting focus these days is on helping organizations to align Technology Strategy with their organizational structures to improve their ability to get stuff done.
He is an internationally recognized expert on software architecture and design and on its intersection with organizational design and lean product development. As such he’s been a guest editor for IEEE Software, written articles, delivered training and spoken at more conferences than he can remember.