Since 1986, Bruce Eckel has published 10 books, numerous blog posts, over 150 articles, and has given hundreds of lectures and seminars throughout the world.

Bruce is a founder of www.TribeWorks.software, a small self-managed software consulting firm specializing in solution development from happy
programmers. In 1997, Bruce founded and is currently the president of MindView, LLC., a Colorado-based corporation focused on providing outstanding training and consulting experiences in programming languages and software system design.

He was a founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++ committee. He speaks regularly at conferences and was for many years the chair of both the C++ and Java tracks at the Software Development conference. He cofounded the Winter Tech Forum (www.WinterTechForum.com), a small self-organized conference, and created Evolve Coworking (www.EvolveWork.co) in Crested Butte, CO.

His book Thinking in C++ won the Software Development Jolt Award for best book published in 1995. Thinking in Java received the Jolt Award for best book published in 2002, as well as the Java World Reader’s Choice Award and Java World Editor’s Choice Award for best book, the Java Developer’s Journal Editor’s Choice Award for books, and the Software Development Productivity Award in 1999.

Bruce attended Pomona College and has a BS in Applied Physics from UC Irvine and a Master of Computer Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He began his career developing embedded systems hardware and software. He worked extensively with C++ since 1987, with Java since 1995, with Python since 1997, and is currently coauthoring the book Atomic Kotlin (www.AtomicKotlin.com).