About the Author

Bartłomiej (Bartek) Filipek is a C++ software developer from the beautiful city of Cracow in Southern Poland. He started his professional career in 2007 and in 2010 he graduated from Jagiellonian University with a Masters Degree in Computer Science.

Bartek currently works at Xara, where he develops features for advanced document editors. He also has experience with desktop graphics applications, game development, large-scale systems for aviation, writing graphics drivers and even biofeedback. In the past, Bartek has also taught programming (mostly game and graphics programming courses) at local universities in Cracow.

Since 2011 Bartek has been regularly blogging at cppstories.com (started as bfilipek.com). The blog focuses on core C++ and getting up-to-date with the C++ Standards. He’s also a co-organiser of the C++ User Group in Cracow. You can hear Bartek in one @CppCast episode where he talks about C++17, blogging and text processing.

Since October 2018, Bartek has been a C++ Expert for the Polish National Body which works directly with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 (C++ Standardisation Committee). Bartek was awarded his first MVP title for the years 2019/2020 by Microsoft.

In his spare time, he loves collecting and assembling Lego models with his son.

Bartek is the author of C++17 In Detail and C++ Lambda Story.