Ted continues his involvement as a member of the ASF, where he is working to help new projects become a part of the Apache community. One of the original developers of the Xerces-J XML parser, Ted a founding member of the Apache XML Project. Togther with fellow ASF-member Thom May, he is operating the PlanetApache community weblog.

Prior to working at OSAF, Ted worked for several years as an independent consultant focusing on Java, XML, and web services. He was the technical lead for IBM's XML4J parser, which served as the initial code base for the Java version of the Xerces-J parser. Other projects he has worked on include Apple's Newton PDA, and on the compound document portion of Taligent's object-oriented frameworks.

As a graduate student at Brown University, Ted worked on several problems in object oriented databases, including data models and query languages. He earned a bachelors degree in Mathematics at MIT.

He is the author of Professional XML Development with Apache Tools, which was published by Wrox in December 2003. In addition, he has authored several trade magazine articles and academic papers.

Ted has spoken at numerous industry conferences including OSCON, PyCon, ApacheCon, Software Development, and IBM's Solutions Developer Conference.

Ted maintains a weblog (blog), Ted Leung on the air, where he writes about open source, modern programming languages, Mac OS X, microcontent, and photography. He is a contributor to pyblosxom, the open source python weblog system that runs his blog.