Dr. James Westland Cain

Chief Software Architect at Grass Valley

Dr James Westland Cain is Chief Software Architect at Grass Valley, where he develops innovative software to support collaborative workflows in News and Sports Television Production. Responsible for software architecture across the whole of Grass Valley, James is leading the transition to developing microservice based applications. His work research interests include file systems innovation and browser based video production. He was granted a PhD in Advanced Software Engineering by Reading University and is a Visiting Research Fellow at Brunel University. He has over twenty international patents granted, has published dozens of refereed academic papers and regularly speaks at conferences.