James Aimonetti has been programming in Erlang since 2006. He joined 2600Hz in its infancy in 2010 to build KAZOO, an open-source platform for building highly scalable, fault-tolerant communication systems. SInce then, he's been a leader in growing the codebase to over 300K lines of Erlang, the community to over 100 members, and building and deploying KAZOO clusters around the world.