James Gosling
Amazon Web Services.
He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems, and window managers, also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint-based drawing editor, and a text editor called `Emacs' for Unix systems. He spent many years as a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He did the original design of the Java programming language and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. He has been a contributor to the Real-Time Specification for Java, and a researcher at Sun labs where his primary interest was software development tools. He then was the Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products Group and the CTO of Sun's Client Software Group. He briefly worked for Oracle in 2010. After a brief stint at Google, he became the chief software architect at Liquid Robotics where he spent his time writing software for the Waveglider, an autonomous ocean-going robot. In May of 2017 became a Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services.
