James Bowkett

James is a Lead consultant at OpenCredo. He has over 20 years of experience as a lead developer in the finance industry at various banks, hedge funds and startups. He cares deeply about building quality and observability into the heart of all software. Having used Kafka in production as the basis for a number of large projects he is keen to share some of these war stories with those in the community who may find themselves facing similar challenges.

Specialties: Agile Software Development, TDD/BDD, Java (J2SE and J2EE), Ruby, Javascript, SQL & Databases.