Jonathan Weedon
Co-Founder and
Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Weedon has spent the last two decades leading teams and building innovative and high-performance products in the financial data distribution, real-time messaging, and transaction processing domains. He has led teams of all sizes (from 2 to 120) at such companies as Tibco, Visigenic, and Borland. Jonathan leads the team at Derivix, a company he co-founded in 2005.
Early in his career, Jonathan headed development of a ground-breaking commercial product at Tibco, which provided multi-language, multi-protocol communication for the financial sector. This work was a continuation of research performed under the guidance of Dr. David Cheriton, in the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford.
Jonathan went on to take a founding stake in Post Modern Computing, where he led the team behind the VisiBroker real-time communications platform. At the time of its release, this was the first commercial application developed entirely in Java. The VisiBroker family of products went on to be one of the most robust and widely deployed middleware products in the world, being not only a core component of the Oracle kernel, but also shipping with every copy of Netscape Navigator.
Jonathan next focused on the then unknown space of Java transaction processing systems. The application server that his team developed won numerous awards for performance and overall usability, including holding the prestigious ECperf (TPC-W) performance benchmark for almost two years, as the fastest Java transaction processing system, beating out comparable offerings from BEA, IBM, Sybase, Oracle and many others.
Jonathan holds six patents, in areas such as communication protocols, transaction processing and object-oriented methodologies, and has been involved in technology, intellectual property, and mergers and acquisition strategy throughout his career. Jonathan completed multiple undergraduate degrees in his first three years at Stanford, and continued on in the Computer Science graduate program for another three years before entering the work force in 1993