Brett O'Donnell has over 12 years of experience as a software engineer. His passion for writing code inspired him to automate many manual processes with Autolt, ranging from hardware automation projects to game-playing robots.

Ilya Shpigor is a software developer at Samsung Electronics. His work involves optimizing the GNU toolchain for the embedded systems and mobile platforms.

He has participated in several open source projects, such as ALT Linux distribution and Wine software, before landing in his current job.

Ilya has experience in cross-platform software and embedded systems development, porting applications to other computing platforms, and real-time computing systems design. He is interested in the automation of routine tasks and researching the capacities of different programming languages to solve specific problems.

Ilya is also the author of Instant MinGW Starter, Packt Publishing.