Brian Becker

Brian Paul Becker is the APL Tools Architect at Dyalog Ltd since since March 2011. Additionally, he has maintained his own APL consultancy, Blue Dolphin Solutions LLC, since 1983. He has been recognized for his work in APL when he received the New York State Data Processing Association's Award of Excellence, and twice by ACM/SIGAPL for innovative use of APL.

Accomplishments
Becker learned APL in his first year of high school in 1975 and has has spent the majority of time since then working with three APL language purveyors, I.P. Sharp Associates, STSC, and Dyalog Ltd, and several businesses using APL across a wide variety of industries and applications, for example:
 * A long-range financial planning system that helped companies consolidate their charts of accounts when merging.
 * An APL-based source code management system
 * Manufacturing requirements planning systems
 * Voice and data network design tools
 * Applications to track and manage USA Federal legislative and regulatory information
 * An APL-based full-text search engine
 * Electronic medical records management systems
 * Governance, risk, and compliance applications
 * Frameworks that help APL applications run on the web

In the 1990's, Becker contributed to the design of the first user command system and several of his ideas have found their way into various APL implementations. He has been involved with the APL Problem Solving Competition since its inception in 2009, first as a judge and also later as its primary problem content developer. Based on the feedback from the 2011 competition winner, he implemented the first version of TryAPL in 2012.