James Daniels is a Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google, working on the Firebase team. At Firebase, James advocates for the needs of Web Developers and helps with maintenance and feature development of their SDKs. James lives in New England, splitting his time between the quiet of rural Maine and the not-so-quiet of Boston, Massachusetts. He got his start in the web development field in the midst of the “standards wars” and was in the XHTML camp… long live HTML5!