About the Author

David Spuler is a serial technology entrepreneur who has combined his love of writing with AI technology in his latest venture: Yoryck AI is a suite of tools for writing and editing, with a focus on fiction from short stories to full-length novels. His published works include satirical fiction novella, Animal Barn: A Cautionary Tail, four non-fiction textbooks on C++ programming covering introductory and advanced C++ programming, efficiency/optimization, debugging/testing, and software development tools, and one application management ops book on BMC PATROL.

Other than writing, he's an avid AI researcher with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and decades of professional experience. Most recently, Spuler has been founding startups, including the current Yoryck AI startup and multiple high-traffic website platforms with millions of monthly uniques, including an e-health startup acquired by HealthGrades, Inc. Prior roles in the corporate world have been as a software industry executive at BMC Software, M&A advisor, strategy consultant, patent expert, and prolific C++ coder with expertise in autonomous agents, compiler construction, internationalization, ontologies and AI/ML. Contact by email to research@yoryck.com or connect via LinkedIn.

About the Contributors

Kirill Tatarinov is a business and technology executive with nearly four decades of enterprise software industry experience. He is a non-executive chairman and board director at several technology companies. He is also a senior advisor to private equity and investment firms.

In his operating roles, Tatarinov was most recently the President and Chief Executive Officer at Citrix Systems, Inc. Under his leadership, Citrix introduced a new vision and transformation to the Cloud, achieving six quarters of continued operational improvement and generating shareholder returns exceeding fifty percent.

Tatarinov previously spent thirteen years at Microsoft Corporation serving as the President of the Microsoft Business Solutions Division (MBS) with end-to-end responsibility for the Microsoft Dynamics business and previously Corporate Vice President of the Management and Solutions Division. From 2011 until his departure in 2015, he was a member of Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team.

Before joining Microsoft in 2002, Tatarinov was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at BMC Software, Inc. He joined BMC in 1994 via the acquisition of Patrol Software where he was co-founder, chief architect, and the head of development.

Michael Sharpe is an experienced technologist with expertise in AI/ML, cybersecurity, cloud architectures, compiler construction, and multiple programming languages. He is currently Senior Software Architect at PROS Inc., where he is a member of the Office of Technology focusing on developing and evangelizing AI. His AI expertise extends to monitoring/observability, devops/MLOps, ITSM, low-resource LLM inference, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI-based agents.

In a long R&D career, Michael has been coding C++ for almost 30 years, with prior roles at BMC Software, Attachmate (formerly NetIQ) and IT Involve. Michael has a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honors in Computer Science from James Cook University and holds several registered patents. He made major contributions to this book, especially in the chapters on GPU hardware acceleration, LLM training, and RAG architectures, not to mention that he also technically-reviewed the book in its entirety!

Cameron Gregory is a technology entrepreneur including as co-founder of fintech bond trading startup BQuotes (acquired by Moody's), co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Trademark Vision with an AI-based image search product (acquired by Clarivate), and founder of several image creation companies including FlamingText.com, LogoNut, AddText, and Creator.me. Currently a Senior Data Scientist focused on “big data” for hedge funds at fintech startup Advan Research Corporation, he is used to working with real-world data at scale.

Cameron has been making code go fast since the 1990s at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, and is proficient in multiple programming languages, including C++, Java, and JavaScript. He holds a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honors in Computer Science from James Cook University. His contributions to the book included detailed suggestions for scaling a high-traffic cloud architecture underpinning AI engines, and overall software development practices and tools.