Rich Hickey

Rich Hickey is a computer programmer and speaker, known as the creator of the Clojure programming language.

Clojure is a Lisp dialect built on top of the Java Virtual Machine.

Before Clojure, he developed dotLisp, a similar project based on the .NET Framework.

[3] Hickey has also worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening.

In 2012, Datomic, a proprietary distributed database was launched which coincided with the incorporation of Cognitect.