James is CEO and Co-Founder of Runtime: an early stage company providing significant contributions to open source for the IoT and embedded community. Apache Mynewt, a project under the Apache Software Foundation, provides an OS and development framework for embedded developers everywhere! James has held a number of roles relevant to scaling and managing the IoT: at Silver Spring Networks, a company enabling deployment and management of 23 million devices by reliably and securely connecting things that matter; network/systems/app management at Loudcloud, the progenitor to cloud-based, utility computing; network management at @Home Networks, the world’s first consumer broadband service; and the NASA Science Internet, a far-reaching precursor to the commercial Internet.