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Sun Microsystems, from its inception in 1982 to itsacquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2010, became known for being "something of a farm system for Silicon Valley."^[1] It had a number of employees credited with notable achievements before, during or after their tenure there.

• Brian Aker,MySQL Director of Technology
• Ken Arnold, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, co-author ofThe Java Programming Language
• Valerie Aurora,ZFS programmer

• 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 ofEffective Java
• Frederick Bloom, Sun Micro System's Senior Java Architect, Core J2EE Patterns (Reference implementation Architect, Lead Developer, PMd.
• Jon Bosak, chair of the originalXML working group
• Jeff Bonwick, slab-allocator, vmem andZFS
• Steve Bourne, creator of theBourne shell
• Tim Bray, Sun Director of Web Technologies
• David J. Brown,SUN workstation at Stanford;Solaris at Sun
• Paul Buchheit, engineer at Sun from May 1997 to August 1997; Creator ofGmail

• Bryan Cantrill, of 2005Technology Review "Top 35 Young Innovators", co-inventor of DTrace
• Alfred Chuang, co-founder ofBEA Systems
• Danny Cohen, co-creator ofCohen-Sutherland line clipping algorithms; coined the computer terms "Big Endians" and "Little Endians" (Endianness)
• Bill Coleman, co-founder ofBEA Systems
• Danese Cooper, open source specialist

• L. Peter Deutsch, founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator ofGhostscript
• Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer, co-inventor ofpublic-key cryptography
• Robert Drost, one ofTechnology Review's 2004 "Top 100 Young Innovators"

• Dan Farmer, computer security researcher
• Marc Fleury, creator of theJBoss application server
• Ned Freed, email systems researcher, co-author of severalMIME RFCs

• 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 theElectronic Frontier Foundation andCygnus Solutions
• Gary Ginstling, music industry executive^[2][3]
• James Gosling, co-inventor ofJava; creator ofNeWS networked extensible window system; author of the first (proprietary) Unix implementation of theEmacs text editor
• Todd Greanier, software architect, author and instructor
• Brendan Gregg, author ofDTrace: 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 ofCurriki
• Bill Joy, Sun co-founder and architect ofBSD Unix; author of thevi text editor

• Vinod Khosla, Sun co-founder andSilicon Valley investor

• 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 ofNVIDIA
• Clark Masters EVP, Enterprise Systems and Father of the E10K, President of SunFed
• Craig McClanahan, creator or theApache Struts framework and architect ofTomcat's servlet container,Catalina
• Scott McNealy, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Sun; CEO from 1984-2006
• Larry McVoy, CEO ofBitMover
• Björn Michaelsen, Director atThe Document Foundation
• Mårten Mickos, CEO ofMySQL AB from 2001 until Sun acquisition in 2008
• Jim Mitchell, Vice President andSun Fellow
• Ian Murdock, Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing, founder ofDebian

• Satya Nadella, CEO ofMicrosoft
• Patrick Naughton, co-creator ofJava
• Jakob Nielsen, web-design usability authority
• Peter Norvig, Director of Research,Google

• John Ousterhout, inventor of theTcl scripting language

• Greg Papadopoulos, Executive Vice President and CTO
• Radia Perlman, sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet"
• Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer
• Kim Polese, prominent dot-com era executive
• Curtis Priem, co-founder ofNVIDIA
• Vivek Pande, Senior Java Architect

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

• Bob Scheifler, leader ofX Window System development from 1984 to 1996
• Eric Schmidt, former Sun Chief Technology Officer, chairman and former CEO ofGoogle, Inc., and co-developer oflex
• Jonathan I. Schwartz, former Sun President and CEO
• Ed Scott, co-founder ofBEA Systems
• Mike Shapiro, co-inventor of DTrace
• Bob Sproull, computer graphics pioneer
• Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-inventor of theScheme programming language and member of IEEE standards committees of many programming languages
• Bert Sutherland, manager ofSun 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 atNeXT, VP of software technology at Apple

• Jim Waldo, lead architect ofJini
• Michael Widenius, original author ofMySQL

• William Yeager, software architect, inventor of the multi-protocol router

• Ed Zander, former president of Sun Microsystems; former CEO ofMotorola

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