Jim Webber

Chief Scientist, Neo4j

Dr. Jim Webber is Neo4j’s Chief Scientist and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. At Neo4j, Jim works on fault-tolerant graph databases and co-wrote O’Reilly’s Graph Databases book. Prior to Neo4j, Jim worked on fault tolerant distributed systems. First at Newcastle University startup Arjuna and then for a variety of clients for global consulting firm ThoughtWorks. Along the way Jim previously co-authored the books 'REST in Practice' and 'Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect’s Guide'. Jim is active in the software development and database research communities, presenting regularly around the world. His blog is located at https://jimwebber.org/blog and he tweets sometimes at @jimwebber.