 He holds a dual appointment to the Electrical Engineering department of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering.He is currently on leave from Duke University to serve as the Director of Engineering at Emerald Innovations, Inc.

Bruce Maggs is the brother of Federal Judge Gregory E. Maggs.Apart from leading the early engineering efforts for Akamai, Maggs was a co-creator of "Avatar", a popular early multiplayer online game developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1970s.