Roderick "Rod" Johnson is an

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computer specialist who created the

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and co-founded

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, where he served as CEO until its 2009 acquisition by

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. In 2011, Johnson became Chairman of

Neo4j Neo4j is a graph database management system developed by Neo4j, Inc. Described by its developers as an ACID-compliant transactional database with native graph storage and processing, Neo4j is available in a non-open-source "community edition" ...

's Board of Directors. At the JavaOne 2012 it was announced that he joined the Typesafe Inc. Company board of directors. In 2016, he founded Atomist.

Biography

Johnson studied at the

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, 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)'. Working between Sydney and San Francisco, Johnson currently serves on the board of four corporations: * Neo Technology * Atomist * Meteor * Hazelcast

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

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