James is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services in the UK. His work with research customers, spans helping individuals run workloads to advising organizations on developing AWS environments which enable their researchers. He particularly enjoys work with teams creating platforms for computing and sensitive data, including the growing Trusted Research Environment (TRE) community in the UK. James is a recovering statistical mechanic from the University of Bath where he spent 16 years, and was part of the team running Isambard, the first production ARM-based HPC system.