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Rod Johnson (programmer)

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Rod Johnson
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
Known forSpring Framework
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Software
InstitutionsVMware, SpringSource, Neo4j
Thesis Piano music in Paris under the July monarchy (1830-1848)

Roderick "Rod" Johnson is an Australian computer specialist who created the Spring Framework and co-founded SpringSource,[1] where he served as CEO until its 2009 acquisition by VMware.[2] In 2011, Johnson became Chairman of Neo4j's Board of Directors. At the JavaOne 2012 it was announced that he joined the Typesafe Inc. Company board of directors.[3] In 2016, he founded Atomist.

Biography

Education

Johnson studied at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1992 with a BA Hons (music and computer science). In 1996 he completed a PhD in musicology, also at Sydney, with a thesis entitled 'Piano music in Paris under the July monarchy (1830-1848)'.

Career

In the early 2000s, Rob Johnson founded SpringSource,[1] and served as CEO until its 2009 acquisition by VMware.[2] Afterwards, he join Elastic and was part of the initial investment in 2012.[4] There he served as a member of the board of directors. In October of 2015, he founded Atomist which provided a shift to cloud-native applications and easily accessible cloud platforms.[4] In addition, Johnson has served on the board of the following corporations:

Publications

  • 2002. Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Wrox. ISBN 0-7645-4385-7.
  • 2004. Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB. Wrox. ISBN 0-7645-5831-5.
  • 2005. Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework. With Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg and Colin Sampaleanu. Wrox. ISBN 0-7645-7483-3.

References

  1. ^ a b "Spring Creator Rod Johnson Leaves VMware, Makes Mark on Java". 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b "VMware Acquires Springsource". 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Typesafe Appoints Rod Johnson to Board of Directors". 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Rod Johnson - Founder and CEO @ Atomist - Crunchbase Person Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 6 August 2023.


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