Summary
Bruce Van Horn is a Principal Software Engineer and architect based in Dallas with a decades-spanning, hands-on career building B2B SaaS and enterprise systems. He blends full-stack implementation (C#, .NET, Java, Node.js, React, Python) with infrastructure and DevOps leadership—authoring code while driving IaC, CI/CD, and SOC 2 compliance for hybrid cloud environments. As a people-first engineering manager he has hired and mentored teams, introduced Scrum/Kanban practices, and led security and penetration-testing efforts for production systems. A prolific educator and author, he has taught full-stack web development at SMU and other colleges and published books and dozens of professional video courses. Notably, he has repeatedly translated storage and capacity-planning research into award-winning products and won industry recognition for innovating large-scale IT modeling. Even after 30 years he remains an active coder who writes most of the core application logic he oversees.
9 years of coding experience