About Brian R. Bondy
General Information
Family is my “raison d’ĂȘtre”. My wife Shannon and I have 3 sons: Link, Ronnie, and Asher.
When I’m not working, I’m usually running while listening to audiobooks. My longest run was in 2023 at Cocodona, just over 422 km (262 mi).
I am a professional C++, Python, Rust, Go, C#, and JavaScript software developer. I like reading about new technologies and other nerdy things.
From 2015 onward, I co-founded Brave Software with the guy that created Mozilla and JavaScript: Brendan Eich. I’m serving as CTO and as a member of the board at Brave Software.
I used to work at some pretty cool places including Khan Academy, Mozilla, and Evernote.
You can get in contact with me here.
Facts about me
- I drink a lot of coffee and usually spill it on myself
- I’m married to the beautiful Shannon L. Bondy (Formerly Gray)
- I have twins and one singleton, all boys
- I have a red tri-colored border collie named “Leia”. (Star Wars)
- I have an Australian Shepherd named Nymeria (Nym for short, direwolf from Game of Thrones)
- I’ve run several ultramarathons, my highest distance is 106mi as of 2019.
- I have a bachelors degree in Computer Science Honors in the Faculty of Mathematics at Waterloo University
- I have a black belt (Shodan) in Meibukan Goju Ryu Karate
- I used to work on Gecko (Engine that runs Firefox)
- My favorite teacher is Salman Khan, and I plan to learn for life from his teachings on every subject
- My favorite music artist is Ray Charles
- My favorite movies are Braveheart, The Last Samurai, Ray
- My favorite T.V. shows are Futurama, Family Guy, South Park, Simpsons, Tudors, Apprentice, and Survivor
- My favorite place to go for a nice meal is the Red Sun - Chinese food
- My favorite coffee shop is Tim Hortons
- My favorite plays are Phantom of the Opera, and Les Miserables
- I have two cats named “Sophie” and “Lil” (and we found out Lil was really a boy after a year of thinking he was a girl with the name Lillie)
- I was born on March 01, 1981
- I was born and raised on a farm. I’m convinced that I’m a hard worker because of that.
- I’m a home body, but I do like to go out. I’d love to do constructive things with my time.
- I love to learn. If I’m not learning, then I lose interest quick. I need to be challenged.
- I love to push and discover my limits, that’s why I run.
- I co-founded 2 companies before Brave: ROBOBAK and VisionWorks Solutions Inc.
- I was awarded a Microsoft MVP award for Visual C++ July 2010 - July 2011
- It is a dream of mine to one day be a winner of the Hutter Prize
- I live in Belle River, Ontario, Canada.