James is an author and engineer. His most recent books are The Little Book of Consul, The Terraform Book, The Art of Monitoring, and The Docker Book. He is the author of six other books on topics including Logstash, Puppet, monitoring and security. He is currently CTO at Empatico and was formerly CTO at Kickstarter and in leadership roles at Docker, Venmo, and Puppet. He likes food, wine, books, photography, and cats. He is not overly keen on long walks on the beach or holding hands.