This is the story of the Advanced Message Queuing protocol as told by its originator. It’s an epic tale of people, strong visions, high passions, good friends and vigorous competitors, with deep lessons for anyone making technology at scale.
Speaker
John O'Hara
Father of AMQP, Venture Partner @Fidelity, Founder @Taskize, Director @Adaptive @Finbourne, Past DE @JPM DE
John O'Hara is a fintech entrepreneur, advisor, and angel investor. He holds non-executive director positions at Adaptive Financial Technology and Taskize, the latter he co-founded and sold to Euroclear. A deep technologist and one of the first Distinguished Engineers at JPMorgan, John also served as Chief Architect for Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, BP Trading, and RBS/NatWest. He is the inventor of AMQP, which is incorporated into cloud products from Amazon, Microsoft, and Red Hat. Additionally, he was a member of the team that created the FpML standard. John holds a joint degree in Electronic Engineering & Computer Science.
