About me
Bret Brown is the lead of the C++ Infrastructure team for Bloomberg's Developer Experience department where he focuses on build systems, packaging standards, compilation toolchain support, and other ecosystem aspects for C++. As part of that role, he is also active in the ISO C++ Tooling Study Group (SG-15).
Bret likes making authoring and maintaining C++ codebases simpler and more intuitive by treating projects more like cattle and less like pets. He is especially interested in the software development lifecycle, development automation, modern build systems, packaging, code transformation, software governance, and code analysis.
Bret worked in embedded C++ and safety critical C++ for previous employers.