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{{short description|Canadian software developer}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Tim Bray
| image              = Tim-at-protect-the-inlet (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Tim Bray in 2018
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1955|06|21}}
| birth_place        = [[Alberta]], Canada
| employer           = {{Plainlist|
* [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]
* [[University of Waterloo]]
* [[Waterloo Maple]]
* [[Open Text Corporation]]<ref name="opentext">{{Cite journal | last1 = Bray | first1 = T. | title = Measuring the Web | doi = 10.1016/0169-7552(96)00061-X | journal = Computer Networks and ISDN Systems | volume = 28 | issue = 7–11 | pages = 993–1005 | year = 1996 }}</ref>
* Antarctica Systems
* [[World Wide Web Consortium|World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)]]
* [[Sun Microsystems]]<ref name="sun">{{Cite book | last1 = Khare | first1 = R. | last2 = Barr | first2 = J. | last3 = Baker | first3 = M. | last4 = Bosworth | first4 = A. | last5 = Bray | first5 = T. | last6 = McManus | first6 = J. | chapter = Web services considered harmful? | doi = 10.1145/1062745.1062758 | title = Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '05 | pages = 800 | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-1595930514 | s2cid = 13543260 }}</ref>
* [[Google]]
* [[Centre for Digital Media]]<ref>[http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/05/13/Professor-of-Glass Teaching Glass], Ongoing, 2014-05-13</ref>
* [[Amazon.com]]}}
| occupation         = 
| known_for          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Web standards]]
* Co-author of [[XML]] specification<ref name="dblp"/><ref name="googlescholar"/><ref name="acm"/>}}
| education          = [[University of Guelph]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])
| spouse             = Lauren Wood
| website            = {{URL|https://www.tbray.org/ongoing}}
}}

'''Timothy William Bray''' (born June 21, 1955) is a Canadian software developer, environmentalist, political activist and one of the co-authors of the original [[XML]] [[specification]].<ref>{{cite book|title=XBRL for Interactive Data |author=Roger Debreceny|isbn=9783642014376|date=2009-06-18|publisher=Springer }}</ref>  He worked for [[Amazon Web Services]] from December 2014 until May 2020 when he quit due to concerns over the terminating of whistleblowers.<ref name="Bray">{{cite web|last=Bray|first=Tim|title=Amazonian|url=https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/12/01/Amazonian|work=Ongoing|access-date=January 2, 2015|date=December 1, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Bray2">{{cite web|last=Bray|first=Tim|title=Leaving Amazon|url=https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon|work=Ongoing|access-date=May 3, 2020|date=April 29, 2020}}</ref> Previously he has been employed by [[Google]], [[Sun Microsystems]] and [[Digital Equipment Corporation|Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)]]. Bray has also founded or co-founded several start-ups such as Antarctica Systems.<ref>[http://www.infoq.com/interviews/tim_bray_rails_and_more Interview with Tim Bray] from Canada on Rails 2006, discussing [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], [[Ruby on Rails|Rails]], [[REST]], [[XML]] and [[Java (software platform)|Java]]</ref><ref>[http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/videos/tim-bray/ Tim Bray @ FOWA Expo 08 — The Fear Factor]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>[http://www.infoq.com/interviews/tim-bray-future-of-web Interview with Tim Bray] from QCon San Francisco 2008, discussing the future of the web</ref>