Igor Ljubuncic is a physicist by vocation and a Linux nerd by profession. Igor comes with 20+ years of experience in the tech industry, including medical, high-performance computing, data center, cloud, and hosting fields, with an emphasis on problem-solving and the scientific method.

To date, Igor's portfolio includes 15 patents, 21 books, several open-source projects, numerous publications in leading journals, presentations at prestigious international conferences, and awards for advocacy and literature.

When it comes to writing, Igor's shelf covers technical books, novels across multiple genres, plus several anthologies, including the short story The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, nominated for the 2014 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History. Over the years, Igor's other fiction works have received favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly, Underground Book Reviews, Midwest Book Review, and SFFWorld.

His technical book on problem-solving in high-performance computing is part of the computer science undergraduate studies curricula at several universities worldwide. It has also been translated into Mandarin.

In his free time, Igor runs a popular science and technology blog, www.dedoimedo.com, drives fast cars on racetracks, does mean impressions of celebrities, and sings in a wide range of languages, from Finnish to Old Norse to Albanian, Polish, Spanish, and many others.