I am the CTO of products at Tripwire, Inc. Most of my career has been spent working on programming interfaces, class interfaces, and reusable programming assets in general. Today I spend most of my time trying to bridge the gap between a user's mental model of how they want to work and a programmer's implementation model. Most of my recent reading has been around Product Management, IxD, and UxD. Weird places indeed for an engineer to hang out.
You can check out some marketing stuff on the latest version of the product at: www.tripwire.com 
. The 7.6 version is currently shipping and I'm pretty excited about it.
Contact Information:
Robert Angelo DiFalco
Portland, OR 97204
mailto:rdifalco@tripwire.com
Some recent books I've liked:
Inspired:
How To Create Products Customers Love -- Marty Cagan
An Underachiever's Diary -- Benjamin Anastas
Intelligent Information Agents -- Matthias Klusch (Ed.)(highly-recommended)
High Performance Cluster Computing (Volume 2) -- Rajkumar Buyya (highly-recommended - especially the chapters on Tuple Space and Concurrency in Java)
Information Warfare and Security -- Dorothy Denning
Some of my favorite books are:
Full of Life -- the one and only John Fante
Complexity :
The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos -- M. Mitchell Waldrop
Working with Objects -- Trygve Reenskaug
Object-Oriented Software Construction -- Bertrand Meyer
Software Reusability :
Applications and Experience (Acm Press Frontier Series) -- Ted J. Biggerstaff Editor (specifically the chapters by Joseph Goguen)
Object-Oriented Software Engineering :
A Use Case Driven Approach -- Ivar Jacobson
Object-Oriented Design with Application -- Grady Booch
Applying UML and Patterns -- Craig Larman
Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer -- Edward Yourdon
Component Software - Beyond Object-Oriented Programming -- Clemens Szyperski
Some of my favorite music is:
Wolfe Parade
Elliot Smith
Arcade Fire
Devandra Banhart
Bright Eyes
Jolie Holland
Nick Drake
Modest Mouse
Neutral Milk Hotel
Tom Waits
Charles Mingus
June of 44
Ornette Coleman
Karate
Charlie Parker
Thelonious Monk
Built to Spill
Pavement
Sonic Youth
Sebadoh
Billie Holiday
Nina Simone
Captain Beefheart
Mozart (especially Great Mass in C Minor and The Requiem)
Bella Bartok
Some of my Pages
Cpp Utx Overview -- my very first contribution to Wiki
Generalize On Exception Behavior -- needs to be shortened
Blocks In Java -- get rid of redundant sections on Internal Iteration
Hierarchical Visitor Pattern -- in progress
Blackboard Metaphor -- Associative Memory idiom
Compute Server -- Associative Memory idiom, nasty, but at least I started it. Should probably clean up and use one of the Category Pattern Form entries.
Great Design -- I liked this one
Pages I don't want to forget to keep working on....
Do Engineers Need Opportunists -- another rant
Communal Development -- just a little refactoring
Inherited Java Singleton Problem -- Wayne Conrad and I, at some point, will try to put this into Document Mode.
Cpp Utx Overview -- mine for the Restricted Compositeinto pattern format and onto their own pages (this is a composite that does not have the collection interface in the Leaf components)
Design Patterns -- find non-Gang Of Four patterns on Wiki and reference the appropriate Topic (i.e. Category Structural Patterns, Category Behavioral Patterns, or Category Creational Patterns) -- s**t, shouldn't have made these plural!!
The Smoking Lounge
See original on c2.com