Adrian Colyer is CTO for Application Fabric at Pivotal and was part of the team that helped to form the founding vision for the company. He has a long-standing interest in enterprise applications and the programming models, tools, and runtimes that support them. Adrian is heavily involved with Pivotal's open source investments including Cloud Foundry, Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat, Groovy, Grails, and Eclipse AspectJ.
Prior to joining Pivotal Adrian was CTO for the vFabric Cloud Application Platform at VMware, which included many of the application components eventually spun-out of VMware into Pivotal.
Adrian joined VMware in 2009 through VMware's acquisition of SpringSource, where he was the CTO. He led the AspectJ project at Eclipse.org and oversaw the integration of aspect-oriented concepts into the Spring Framework. He helped to grow the SpringSource portfolio from these two projects into the rich set of projects and products that it is today.
In 2004 Adrian was recognised by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 100 young innovators in the world. Adrian has also served on a number of industry groups including the Aspect-Oriented Software Association Steering Committee, the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group, and the Eclipse Architecture Council. Prior to joining SpringSource, Adrian gained over a decade of experience in building enterprise middleware at IBM.
Twitter: @adriancolyer