With over 30 years of Silicon Valley software development experience, Dr. Jim Walsh brings diverse technology management capabilities to GlobalLogic. As Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Walsh focuses on making digital transformation successful for GlobalLogic's clients. These clients have included members of the Fortune 20, startups, and literal "Mom & Pop" operations.
During his career, Jim has led architecture, re-architecture and digital transformation initiatives in scores of verticals (e.g., agriculture, health care, retail and warehouse logistics, and many others.). Dr. Walsh has also delivered more technically-oriented platforms such as web application servers, real-time decision analysis platforms, security frameworks, and IoT platforms.
Jim earned his B.A. in Physics and Math from Harvard College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University. He is also a frequent speaker and blogger on technical subjects and distributed software development best practices.
Blogs by author
GenAI and my family reunion
At business meetings over the last year or so, I have a little bet with myself about how long it ...
GenAI and the Meeting of the Minds
At a recent Hitachi Energy conference, I saw a very interesting presentation by Hitachi partner ...
Generations and GenAI
This is probably a well-known fact in sociology or some other such discipline, but it struck me the ...
We’re getting the chance to live in the future
Early 20th Century motivational speaker and author Dale Carnegie once wrote “Today is the ...
Intelligence is Intelligence, even if it’s Artificial
I had a stimulating conversation with the head of our GenAI practice, Suhail Khaki, a few weeks ...
Retail as a Conspiracy
I was one of the early buyers of the first release of Apple Vision Pro AR headset early this year. ...
The “hype cycle” is about the hype—not the technology
The hype cycle has little to do with the merits of a particular technology. It simply has to do ...
Give yourself a promotion using GenAI
I think we’d all agree that getting promoted is desirable. Higher wages, better job title, greater ...
GenAI and the Midas Touch
GenAI & the Midas Touch: Overcoming the Ambiguity of Natural Language With all of its promise, ...
What, How, and When in Software Development
While any software development initiative has unique features, some situations recur so often that ...
In Software Engineering, How Good is Good Enough?
A recurring challenge in software — especially for newly developed systems or major upgrades — is ...
Shakespeare & Creative AIs: ChatGPT Reinvents a Classic
I was talking with my daughter, a creative and a commercial writer, about ChatGPT recently. At a ...
How ChatGPT & Other Creative AIs Will Impact Our Lives
I have the feeling that sooner than later, we're all going to learn what it's like to have creative ...
Tips for Staying Relevant in the Age of Creative AIs Like ChatGPT
What I would call “creative AIs” are causing a lot of concern about the future of the human role in ...
AI’s Impact on Software Development: Where We Are & What Comes Next
The explosive popularity of Open AI’s ChatGPT and impending launch of Bard, Google’s long-awaited ...
Software, the Last Handmade Thing
This blog post on software development and AI was originally published in 2009. “Collector” is ...
ChatGPT and what makes us human
Since the AI-driven chatbot “ChatGPT” was introduced to the public in November 2022, it has been a ...
Fintech in the Metaverse: Exploring the Possibilities
Metaverse: It’s a term that has earned a great deal of attention in the past year. In 2021, the ...
Tesla Platform vs Purpose Built Car — 3 Years Later
A little over three years ago, I posted a blog about my then-new Tesla and my wife’s then-new ...
Innovators and Laggards: The Technology Landscape of 2019
In the 1960s, sociologist Everett Rogers produced a roadmap showing how innovations are adopted ...
What Makes A Software Architect?
Many roles in software development tend to be mislabeled as “architects.” Although these roles are ...
What’s an “A” Player?
When I was at NeXT Software in the mid-1990s, Steve Jobs used to say, to the point we all got sick ...
How to Hire a Software Architect
What is an Architect? For a software company, or a traditional enterprise going through digital ...
Fast Fashion and Fast Software (Part II)
In my previous blog, I introduced the topics of Fast Fashion and Fast Software and explored both ...
Fast Fashion and Fast Software (Part I)
Software and fashion may seem like two unrelated industries, but they share a common trait – the ...
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