Technology, Product Development & Software Engineering Expert Witness
The discipline that qualifies. The experience that Daubert requires.
The Core Discipline
As a software engineering expert witness, Bruce Weiner is an expert in technology, product development, and software engineering with 37 years of experience applying industry-standard design, testing, and post-deployment evaluation methods to determine whether technology products and features achieve their stated objectives.
His career includes leading initiatives for Fortune 100 companies and government agencies, directing cross-functional teams to design, implement, and validate technology products — and to evaluate their real-world effectiveness, including safety outcomes, through controlled internal studies and post-launch performance tracking.
Since 2011, Bruce has applied this practitioner expertise as a testifying and consulting expert in 25+ matters across federal courts, PTAB, state courts, AAA arbitration, NAA arbitration, and administrative proceedings — retained by both plaintiff and defense counsel.
Disputes Addressed
- Product lifecycle failures and feature development disputes
- Mobile application standards and quality conformance
- Safety-critical software systems evaluation
- AI-weighted model governance and algorithmic accountability
- Post-deployment performance tracking and outcome evaluation
- Technology vendor performance and SDLC governance failures
Analytical Approach
Frame the Technical Questions
Define the specific product development or governance issues at issue. What standard applies? Was it followed? What was the causal consequence of any deviation?
Apply Practitioner Experience
37 years building, governing, and evaluating technology products across financial services, air travel, e-commerce, and platform technology provides the experiential foundation every opinion rests on.
Systematic Documentary Review
OKRs, planning documents, sprint artifacts, testing records, post-deployment performance data, server logs, source code modules, and billing records — reviewed against pre-established inclusion/exclusion criteria.
Benchmark Against Standards
Measure findings against ISO/IEC 12207, ISO 31000, ISO/IEC 25010, and IEEE 730 — internationally ratified frameworks governing software lifecycle and quality.
Synthesize Reproducible Conclusions
Form opinions grounded in documented evidence, professional judgment, and standards benchmarks. Hypothesis-tested. Reproducible. Consistent with FRE 702.
Standards Applied
| STANDARD | APPLICATION |
|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 12207:2017 | Software lifecycle processes — primary SDLC/PDLC benchmark |
| ISO 31000:2018 | Risk management — foreseeable risk governance in product development |
| ISO/IEC 25010:2023 | Software quality model — suitability, performance, security, reliability |
| IEEE 730:2014 | Software quality assurance plan requirements |
| ISO/IEC Guide 51:2014 | Safety aspects in standards — risk reduction requirements |
| OWASP | Web application security standards |
| IETF RFC 7231 | HTTP/1.1 semantics — web API standards |
Relevant Credentials & Experience
- Vice President, Chief Product Owner — large financial services institution since 2012
- Led multi-year cloud migration and transformation for fixed income and banking/payments technology
- CTO of United.com — Led $280M vendor-funded rebuild of United.com. Managed $380M GDS fee portfolio.
- Certified Advanced Scrum Product Owner — Scrum Alliance
- IEEE member since 2018 · ACM member since 2018
- Princeton BSE, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude
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