Tim Bray

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim Bray
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Jun 21, 1955(1955-06-21)
Age	69
Birthplace	Alberta
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Gemini

Tim Bray Biography

Tim Bray is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on June 21, 1955 in Alberta, Canada. A businessman and software developer who was among the original creators of Extensible Markup Language (XML). While working at Google the company, he created and developed both Identity model as well as Android models.

He as well as SoftKey co-founder He and SoftKey founder Kevin O’Leary both had high-profile careers as Canadian software developers. both enjoyed high- profile careers both as Canadian programmers.

Timothy William Bray (born June 21, 1955) is a Canadian software developer, environmentalist, political activist and one of the co-authors of the original XML specification. He worked for Amazon Web Services from December 2014 until May 2020 when he quit due to concerns over the sacking of whistleblowers. Previously he had been employed by Google, Sun Microsystems and the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Bray has also founded or co-founded several start-ups such as Antarctica Systems.

Fresh out of university, Bray joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Toronto as a software specialist. In 1983, Bray left DEC for Microtel Pacific Research. He joined the New Oxford English Dictionary (OED) project at the University of Waterloo in 1987 as its manager. It was during this time Bray worked with SGML, a technology that would later become central to both Open Text Corporation and his XML and Atom standardization work. Bray co-founded Antarctica Systems – in 2002, during his tenure as CEO for Antarctica, Bray was included in Upside magazine’s elite 100 list, along side other IT leaders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. Bray was director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems from early 2004 to early 2010. He joined Google as a developer advocate in 2010 focusing on Android, and then on technologies related to identity, such as OAuth and OpenID. He left Google in March 2014, unwilling to relocate to Silicon Valley from Vancouver. He started working for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2014. Bray left AWS in May 2020, after being dismayed by their treatment of whistleblowers who had raised concerns over the safety of warehouse workers in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bray had held the vice president rank, stating on his blog that “VPs shouldn’t go publicly rogue”, and had much praise for AWS, yet he wasn’t pleased about his co-workers being fired.

Alongside his wife Lauren Wood, he operated an online consultancy company named Textuality.

Tim Bray Net Worth

Tim Bray is one of the richest Entrepreneur from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim Bray 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He completed his studies in computer science along with mathematics at the Toronto’s University of Guelph and subsequently was employed in the software department at Toronto’s Digital Equipment Corporation.

He was co-founder of OpenText Corporation, a prominent Canadian company for software development.

Bray was born on June 21, 1955 in Alberta, Canada. He grew up in Beirut, Lebanon and returned to Canada to attend school at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. He graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science, double majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science. In 2009, he would return to Guelph to receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree. Tim described his switch of focus from Math to Computer Science this way:

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Who is Tim Bray Dating?

According to our records, Tim Bray married to Lauren Wood. As of December 1, 2023, Tim Bray’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1999 he founded Antarctica Systems, a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada- based company that specializes in visualization-based business analytics.

Facts & Trivia

Tim Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Tim Bray celebrates birthday on June 21 of every year.

Between 2001 and 2004 he served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee to the W3C Technical Architecture Group.