Jim Webber

Chief Scientist at Neo4j

Leading graph technology innovator, specializing in distributed systems research.

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Dr. Jim Webber is Neo4j’s Chief Scientist and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. At Neo4j, Jim leads the Systems Research Group, working on a variety of database research topics with a focus on fault tolerance. He also co-authored several books on graph technology including Graph Databases (1st and 2nd editions, O’Reilly), Graph Databases for Dummies (Wiley), and Building Knowledge Graphs (O’Reilly).

Prior to Neo4j, Jim worked on fault-tolerant distributed systems. First at Newcastle University startup Arjuna and then for a variety of clients for the global consulting firm ThoughtWorks. Along the way, Jim co-authored the distributed systems books REST in Practice (O’Reilly) and Developing Enterprise Web Services – An Architect’s Guide (Prentice Hall).