High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Cecil Martin, known colloquially as "Uncle Bob", is an American software consultant and author. Martin has been a software professional since 1970 and an international software consultant since 1990. In 2001, he initiated the meeting of the group that created Agile software development from Extreme Programming techniques. He is also a leading member of the Software craftsmanship movement. His videos "code casts" on Clean Code can be viewed on www.cleancoders.com.