Jim Barton

Jim Barton is a Field Engineer at Solo.io, a Cambridge-based company specializing in service mesh and Kubernetes-native API gateway technology. Jim’s career in enterprise software spans 30 years. He has enjoyed roles as a project engineer, sales and consulting engineer, product development manager, and executive leader of tech startups. Prior to Solo, he spent a decade architecting, building and operating systems based on enterprise open-source technologies, at the likes of Red Hat, Amazon, and Zappos. After two years of COVID-driven, Zoom-encrusted isolation, Jim especially enjoys sharing with and learning from three-dimensional people at technical conferences around the world.