Joshua Berne is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LLC where he works on their core C++ Libraries and Standardization efforts to improve C++ for both Bloomberg and the world. He has shockingly accumulated a quarter-century of working on large-scale, reliable, high-performance financial systems. Since 2019 he has been participating in WG21 to get a contract-checking facility into C++, which is now set to ship as part of C++26.