Bud Tribble was a cofounder of NeXT and served as vice president of software engineering, helping guide software architecture and product strategy in the company’s early years. Before NeXT, he was a software lead of the original Macintosh team at Apple and coined the term “reality distortion field” about Steve Jobs. After NeXT, he returned to Apple in senior engineering and product roles and retired as vice president of software technology. He also worked at Eazel Inc. as vice president of engineering and at Sun Microsystems as chief technology officer for the Sun-Netscape Alliance.
