James Roper

James Roper is a Principal Architect at Lightbend, Inc., based in Canberra, Australia.1 He is an open source software developer who created and serves as the architect of Kalix, a serverless platform.1 Roper has extensive experience in software development and architecture, with a focus on reactive systems and cloud technologies.

Career Highlights

• Principal Architect at Lightbend, Inc. (January 2020 - Present): Responsible for the architecture of the Kalix serverless platform.1
• Architect, Office of the CTO at Lightbend, Inc. (October 2017 - January 2020): Worked on strategic projects and research, including proposals for JDK, Jakarta EE, and MicroProfile.1
• Lead Developer at Lightbend, Inc. (October 2015 - October 2017): Co-created and led the development of Lagom Framework.1
• Committer at Eclipse Foundation (April 2018 - July 2019): Led the MicroProfile Reactive project.1
• Lead Developer at Typesafe (now Lightbend) (February 2013 - January 2016): Led the development of Play Framework.1

Education

Roper holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering from The Australian National University (2001-2004).1

Skills and Expertise

James Roper has demonstrated expertise in:

• Open source software development
• Cloud architecture and serverless platforms
• Reactive systems and frameworks
• Java and JVM technologies
• Microservices and distributed systems

Throughout his career, Roper has contributed significantly to various open source projects and has played key roles in developing and maintaining important frameworks and platforms in the Java ecosystem.