I'm a Software Engineer with more than twenty-five years of experience in enterprise and platform engineering, the past decade of which has been spent building the systems this book is about, currently leading a team of engineers. For the past decade I've led the architecture, design, and development of large-scale Digital Media advertising platforms — working across the full machinery of modern AdTech: real-time bidding pipelines, bid-optimization and budget-pacing frameworks, campaign and audience-targeting systems, and integrations with ecosystems like Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising. More recently my work has moved into AI-driven advertising, from generative AI for creative automation to natural-language campaign configuration and automated performance insights.

Over my career I've gone from enterprise application engineering to leading engineering teams that deliver commercial AdTech products end to end — from architecture through production. I hold a master's in Information Technology and a bachelor's in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.

I wrote this book to give newcomers the clear, structured understanding of digital advertising I wish I'd had when I was starting out. If that's you, I hope it helps.