Peter Sommerlad is an independent trainer and consultant for modern and safe C++ and software engineering. Before the pandemic, he was professor and director of IFS Institute for Software at FHO/HSR Rapperswil, Switzerland. Peter is co-author of the books POSA Vol.1 and Security Patterns and contributed to "97 things every programmer should know". His goal is to make software simpler and safer and help programmers getting there. Peter is a member of MISRA-C++, Hillside, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and the ISO WG21 "C++" and WG23 "vulnerabilities" standardization committee.