Anders started programming in Turbo Pascal in 1995, and has been programming professionally in various languages since 2001. He's currently a senior software engineer at Squarehead, working on acoustic drone detection systems. He's also the author of the book C++ Brain Teasers, http://cppquiz.org, and https://blog.knatten.org

Sy Brand is an expert in debugger technologies and Microsoft’s C++ Developer Advocate. Sy has over a decade in developer tooling and has worked on profilers, compilers, language runtimes, standard libraries, and, of course, debuggers. They’ve also contributed to the standards for C++, DWARF, and HSA. Brand earned a degree in computer science from the University of St. Andrews, specializing in compiler implementation. They also are a poet, filmmaker, musician, activist, and parent to three cats and one entire human.