List of Sun Microsystems employees

These notable people worked at Sun Microsystems at some point prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation.

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Brian Aker, MySQL Director of Technology
Ken Arnold, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, co-author of "The Java Programming Language"

Carol Bartz, head of SunFed, Sun service and worldwide operations; Autodesk CEO, Yahoo! CEO
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
David J. Brown, SUN workstation and Solaris
Paul Buchheit, engineer at Sun from May 1997 to August 1997; Creator of Gmail

Bryan Cantrill, of 2005 Technology Review "Top 35 Young Innovators", co-inventor of DTrace.
Alfred Chuang, co-founder of BEA Systems
Danny Cohen, co-creator of Cohen-Sutherland line clipping algorithms, coined the computer terms "Big Endians" and "Little Endians" (Endianness)
Danese Cooper, Open Source specialist

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"

Richard P. Gabriel, Lisp expert and founder of Lucid, Inc.
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
Todd Greanier, software architect, author and instructor
Brendan Gregg, author of DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud

Kim Jones, Vice President of Global Education, Government and Health Sciences; CEO of Sun UK from 2007; CEO of Curriki
Bill Joy, Sun co-founder and architect of BSD Unix, vi editor

Susan Landau, mathematician and cybersecurity expert
Adam Leventhal, co-inventor of DTrace
Peter van der Linden, former manager of kernel group, author of numerous Java and C books

Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of NVIDIA
Clark Masters, EVP, Enterprise Systems and Father of the E10K, President of SunFed
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
Björn Michaelsen, Director at The Document Foundation
Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 until Sun acquisition in 2008
Jim Mitchell, Vice President and Sun Fellow
Ian Murdock, Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing, founder of Debian

George Reyes, former CFO of Google, Inc.
David S. H. Rosenthal, early X Window System developer and original designer of the ICCCM
Wayne Rosing, project lead for the Apple Lisa; Sun hardware development manager and manager of Sun Labs

Bob Scheifler, leader of X Window System development from 1984 to 1996
Eric Schmidt, former Sun Chief Technology Officer, chairman and former CEO of Google, Inc., and co-developer of lex
Jonathan I. Schwartz, former President and CEO of Sun
Mike Shapiro, co-inventor of DTrace
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

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