Tim Bray
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 68 |
| Date of birth | June 21,1955 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Alberta |
| Canada | |
| Founded | OpenText |
| Job | Software Developer |
| Computer scientist | |
| Official site | tbray.org |
| Spouse | Lauren Wood |
| Education | University of Guelph |
| Known for | Web standards |
| XML | |
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| ID | 563397 |
Tim Bray Life story
Timothy William Bray is a Canadian software developer, environmentalist, political activist and one of the co-authors of the original XML specification. He worked for Amazon Web Services from December 2014 until May 2020 when he quit due to concerns over the terminating of whistleblowers.
Coronavirus: Amazon's vice president terminated in the event of virus redundancies
Vice President , Amazon has stopped "dismayed" at The Internet giant RAID against workers who criticized it on coronavirus safety measures.
Tim Bray said, the fire of the protesters was the "evidence of a vein of the toxicity to be running on The Company culture".
the workers Amazon have criticized for not doing enough to protect warehouse workers against The Virus .
Amazon has not responded to a request for comment.
Mr. Bray, a Senior Engineer at Amazon Web Services, where he had worked for five years.
Amazon sorts of investigations in New York , where The Company announced the organizers of a small protest about the safety conditions in a camp there.
Mr Bray said that last month Amazon also shot office staff, the Organisation of further protests and had spoken out against The Company on the climate protection.
"At this point, I snapped," he wrote, adding that he raised his concerns internally first.
"done, a Amazon [Vice President ], would have meant, in fact, the signing off on the deeds, which I despised. So I resigned," he wrote.
Mr Bray said the work in The Company would cost "rewarding" fun " and his decision to him financially.
"What is it with big-tech-salaries and share vestings, this will probably cost me over A Million (before taxes) not to mention the US Dollar, The Best job I ever had, working with awfully Good People . So I'm pretty blue," he wrote.
But He Said : "not Fired" Whistleblower " is simply a side effect of the macro-economic forces, yet it is inseparable with the function of free markets.
"It is the evidence of a vein of toxicity is via The Company 's culture. I choose to use or to drink the poison. "
Amazon has already renewed scrutiny over its business practices, such as pandemic, The Company brings in the overdrive to fill online orders from the people in lockdown.
The e-commerce giant ordered temporarily closed its six warehouses in France after a court order to stop all but essential deliveries.
Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos , with a fortune of $138bn has also been asked to speak before the U.S. Congress as part of a wider investigation of the monopoly.
Amazon last week, the investors warned that the pandemic was forced costly changes in the economy, including expenditure on protective clothing, and adjustments to the operations, with which the bearing is less efficient.
He Said , to spend that It expected $4bn of its expected quarterly Profit on coronavirus measures in the three months to June.
sales are booming, however, and it is expected that sales will rise as high as 28% in the current quarter.
coronavirus pandemic, amazon, companies
Source of news: bbc.com
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