'''James Strachan''' is a [[software engineer]] who created the [[Groovy (programming language)|Apache Groovy programming language]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rocher|first1=Graeme |last2=Brown|first2=Jeff|title=The Definitive Guide to Grails|url=https://books.google.com/?id=Ddwyg3ADVCEC&pg=PA545&dq=%22James+Strachan%22+groovy#v=onepage&q=%22James%20Strachan%22%20groovy&f=false|accessdate=29 November 2011|edition=2|year=2009|publisher=Apress|isbn=1-59059-995-0|page=545}}</ref> He is a member of the [[Apache Software Foundation]] and a co-founder of a number of other [[open-source software|open source]] projects such as:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.openhub.net/accounts/jstrachan|title=James Strachan - Open Hub|website=Openhub.net|accessdate=13 December 2018}}</ref>
* [[Apache ActiveMQ]]
* [[Apache Camel]]
* [[Apache ServiceMix]]
Strachan is currently employed by [[CloudBees]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/jstrachan|title=GitHub Profile|website=Github.com|access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref> working among other projects in [[Jenkins (software)|Jenkins X]] development.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/03/19/introducing-jenkins-x/index.html|title=Introducing Jenkins X: a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes|website=Jenkins.io|accessdate=13 December 2018}}</ref>
