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 over twenty years As a member of the Thoughtworks Doppler group, 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. He has also written more recently about Patterns of Legacy Displacement – how to tackle migration away from legacy safely. James’ primary consulting focus these days is on helping organisations to align Technology Strategy with their organisational structures to improve their ability to get stuff done.
He is an internationally recognised expert on software architecture and design and on its intersection with organisational 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.