Roderick "Rod" Johnson is an
Australian
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computer specialist who created the
Spring Framework and co-founded
SpringSource
Spring (previously known as SpringSource) was a software company founded by Rod Johnson, who also created the Spring Framework, an open-source application framework for enterprise Java applications. VMware purchased Spring for $420 million in ...
,
where he was CEO until its 2009 acquisition by
VMware.
In 2011, Johnson became chairman of
Neo4j
Neo4j is a graph database management system (GDBMS) developed by Neo4j Inc.
The data elements Neo4j stores are nodes, edges connecting them, and attributes of nodes and edges. Described by its developers as an ACID-compliant transactional d ...
Inc. In 2012 it was announced that he joined the
Typesafe Inc. board of directors.
In 2016, he founded Atomist.
Biography
Education
Johnson studied at the
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...
, graduating in 1992 with a BA Hons (music and computer science). In 1996 he completed a PhD in
musicology
Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...
, also at Sydney, with a thesis entitled 'Piano music in Paris under the July monarchy (1830-1848)'.
Career
In the early 2000s, Rod Johnson founded
SpringSource
Spring (previously known as SpringSource) was a software company founded by Rod Johnson, who also created the Spring Framework, an open-source application framework for enterprise Java applications. VMware purchased Spring for $420 million in ...
,
and served as CEO until its 2009 acquisition by
VMware.
Publications
* 2002. ''Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development''. Wrox. .
* 2004. ''Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB''. Wrox. .
* 2005. ''Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework''. With Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg and Colin Sampaleanu. Wrox. .
References
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Sydney alumni
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