John A. McDermid OBE FREng is a computer scientist and professor[1] at the University of York, UK, and chairman of Rapita Systems Ltd. UK.
[2] McDermid was with the UK Ministry of Defence as a research scientist and spent five years in the software industry.
He then moved to take up the position of chair in software engineering[3] at the University of York since 1987.
[4] He was a vice president of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT from 2000 to 2003 and a founding member of the United Kingdom Computing Research Committee.
[5] He was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and elected to Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.