Technical Principal, DLT Specialist, Thoughtworks

Jim is a Principal Architect at Thoughtworks where he has consulted for a wide range of clients over the past 10 years, including 5 years in the public sector including GDS, SLC, DWP, DVLA and the Land Registry. He became more deeply involved with blockchain whilst working at the Land Registry. Since then Jim has been leading the UK blockchain exploration within Thoughtworks, including kicking off their relationship with R3 and Corda, leading the DECODE Thoughtworks team and being the technical lead for the project. DECODE explores leading research into Attribute based encryption and Zero knowledge privacy schemes. More recently Jim was the technical principal and architect throughout the bid process and was responsible for the architecture of the VAKT project.