Brandon is a VP of Engineering at a technology startup, and in the past his team has received the Innovator of the Year award from Redhat, and as an executive consultant he’s even advised the CIO of a three letter federal agency. He’s a video game and open-source pioneer, technology architect (with a blog at Surfing the Cloud), serial entrepreneur, game designer, writer, artist, technology executive, and has built many different startups and companies. He met his wife at college, where he was going to school in English and Graphic Arts, but somehow ended up in Computer Science instead. He lives with his family in the Rocky Mountains, and enjoys the outdoors. Foremost, however, he loves sci-fi and fantasy and has developed many stories, games, and settings. Atom Bomb Baby is his fifth completed book.