John Graham-Cumming

Graham-Cumming earns my respect for reasons beyond his obvious technical brilliance. Yes, he is an Oxford-trained engineer, author, and a former CTO and board member at Cloudflare. But what truly moves me is that he launched the petition that pressured the UK government into apologizing for its persecution of Alan Turing, the very father of computing. An engineer could have simply written code; instead he acted on principle and got a Prime Minister to say sorry. I value that kind of moral conviction more than any line of software. He turned indignation into history, and that, to me, is the rarer talent.

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Name (English)

John Graham-Cumming

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・グラハム＝カミング

Reading

じょん・ぐらはむ＝かみんぐ

Occupation

engineer / programmer / writer / author

• Official sitehttps://www.jgc.org/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Graham-Cumming
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A0%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%AB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181625

Tags

• engineer
• programmer
• writer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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