Jim Jagielski is an American software engineer, who specializes in Open Source, InnerSource, web and cloud technologies.

Biography

In 1994, Jagielski founded jaguNET Access Services, a Web Host and ISP. He has served as CTO for Zend Technologies. Additionally, Jagielski has served as the Open Source Program Office lead for companies such as Red Hat, Capital One, VMWare, Uber, and currently Salesforce. Jagielski is an international speaker, having spoken and keynoted at events such as ApacheCon, OSCON, All Things Open, Open Source 101, Open Expo, FOSS Backstage, FINOS, The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit and numerous other events on such topics as Open Source Communities, Licensing, and Technologies. His first recognition on the Internet was as editor of the A/UX FAQ and system administrator for Jagubox, the primary repository for third-party software for Apple's A/UX operating system.

Apache Software Foundation

Jagielski is one of the co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation. Jagielski served for several years as Director, Chairman, President, and EVP of the ASF. Jagielski is the original Chair of the Apache Incubator project. After doing some development on the NCSA HTTPd web server, he started with Apache in early-to-mid 1995.

Other board and Council memberships

In 2010, Jagielski was appointed to the Board of Directors of the CodePlex Foundation, which was later renamed to Outercurve Foundation. As well as Director, Jagielski serves as President for Outercurve. In 2011, Jagielski was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative. He resigned in September 2013. In 2012, Jagielski was appointed as a new Council member of the MARSEC-XL Foundation. Jagielski is a member of OASIS Open's Open Projects Advisory Council.

Awards

Jagielski was one of the recipients of the O'Reilly Open Source Awards at OSCON 2012. In 2015, Jagielski was awarded the European Commission/Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group's Luminary Award in Creating Open Engagement Platforms for his global efforts in promoting Open Source as an Innovation process.