List of Sun Microsystems employees

These notable people work or used to work at Sun Microsystems.

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A

* Brian Aker, MySQL Director of Technology

B

*Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun co-founder, systems designer and Silicon Valley investor
*Joshua Bloch, author of "Effective Java"
*Jon Bosak, chair of the original XML working group
*Jeff Bonwick, slab-allocator, vmem and ZFS
*Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell
*Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies

C

*Bryan Cantrill, of 2005 "Technology Review" "Top 35 Young Innovators"
*Alfred Chuang, co-founder of BEA Systems

D

*James Duncan Davidson, creator of the Tomcat web container and the Ant build tool
*L. Peter Deutsch, founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript
*Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer, co-inventor of public-key cryptography
*Robert Drost, one of "Technology Review"'s 2004 "Top 100 Young Innovators"

F

*Dan Farmer, computer security researcher
*Marc Fleury, creator of the JBoss application server
*Ned Freed, email systems researcher, co-author of several MIME RFCs

G

*John Gage, Chief Researcher and former Science Officer; first Sun salesman
*John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Cygnus Solutions
*James Gosling, co-inventor of Java; creator of NeWS networked extensible window system; author of first (proprietary) Unix Emacs implementation.
*Berny Goodheart, author of "The Magic Garden Explained: the internals of UNIX System V Release 4: an open systems design"

J

*Bill Joy, Sun co-founder and architect of BSD Unix, vi editor

K

*Vinod Khosla, Sun co-founder and Silicon Valley investor

L

* Peter van der Linden, former manager of kernel group, author of numerous Java and C books

M

*Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of NVIDIA
*Craig McClanahan, creator or the Apache Struts framework and architect of Tomcat's servlet container, Catalina
*Scott McNealy, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Sun; CEO from 1984-2006
*Larry McVoy, CEO of BitMover
*Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 until Sun acquistion in 2008
*Jim Mitchell, Vice President and Sun Fellow
*Ian Murdock, Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing, founder of Debian

N

*Jakob Nielsen, web-design usability authority
*Peter Norvig, Director of Research Google

O

*John Ousterhout, inventor of the Tcl scripting language

P

*Greg Papadopoulos, Executive Vice President and CTO
*Radia Perlman, sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet"
*Kim Polese, prominent dot-com era executive
*Curtis Priem, co-founder of NVIDIA

R

*George Reyes, currently CFO of Google, Inc.
*David S. H. Rosenthal, early X Window System developer and original designer of the ICCCM

S

*Bob Scheifler, leader of X Window System development from 1984 to 1996
*Johannes Schlüter, programmer, working on the PHP runtime
*Eric Schmidt, former Chief Technology Officer of Sun, currently CEO of Google, Inc. and co-developer of lex
*Jonathan I. Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun
*Bob Sproull, computer graphics pioneer
*Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-inventor of the Scheme programming language and member of IEEE standards committees of many programming languages
*Bert Sutherland, manager of Sun Labs, Xerox PARC, BBN Computer Science Division
*Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer

T

*Michael Tiemann, GNU C++ author and free software evangelistfact|date=April 2008
*Bruce Tognazzini, computer usability consultant
*Marc Tremblay, microprocessor architect and Sun's employee with the most awarded patents
*Bud Tribble, former VP of software development at NeXT, current VP of software technology at Apple

V

*Bill Vass, President and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc.

W

*Michael Widenius, original author of MySQL

Z

*Edward Zander, former President of Sun Microsystems; former CEO of Motorola