# John Walker > John Walker is co-founder of Autodesk. Autodesk Platform Services on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-walker/ - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-walker/index.md (~750 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-walker/index.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-walker/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT .grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-03 Co-founder, Autodesk. John Walker co-founded Autodesk in 1982 with Dan Drake and a group of programmers, and the company's first product was AutoCAD. ## What John builds - [Autodesk Platform Services](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services.md), graded E, 44.3/100, in CAD, engineering & fabrication. Autodesk Platform Services (APS, formerly Forge) is Autodesk's cloud API set. Its Automation API runs AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, 3ds Max and Fusion headlessly on design files, beside Model Derivative, Data Management, OSS and Webhooks APIs under OAuth 2.0. Co-founder, Autodesk, researched 2026-11-03. ## Works with - [Andrew Anagnost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrew-anagnost/), President and Chief Executive Officer, Autodesk - [Dan Drake](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dan-drake/), Co-founder, Autodesk ## Questions ### Who is John Walker? John Walker co-founded Autodesk in 1982 with Dan Drake and a group of programmers, and the company's first product was AutoCAD. ### What does Autodesk, Inc. make? Anchor Terminal lists Autodesk Platform Services from Autodesk, Inc.. Autodesk Platform Services (APS, formerly Forge) is Autodesk's cloud API set. Its Automation API runs AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, 3ds Max and Fusion headlessly on design files, beside Model Derivative, Data Management, OSS and Webhooks APIs under OAuth 2.0. ### How are John's tools graded? Autodesk Platform Services is graded E, 44.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://aps.autodesk.com/en/support/get-help - https://github.com/autodesk-platform-services/aps-sdk-openapi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk - https://www.autodesk.com/robots.txt These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp