Uncle Bob has been a programmer since 1970. He served as the Master Craftsman at 8th Light inc, is co-founder of the online video training company: cleancoders.com, and founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC.

He is an acclaimed speaker at conferences worldwide, and the author of many books including: "The Clean Coder", "Clean Code", "Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices", and "UML for Java Programmers".

He is a prolific writer and has published hundreds of articles, papers, and blogs. He served as the Editor-in-chief of the C++ Report, and as the first chairman of the Agile Alliance.