Sy Brand is the author of "Building a Debugger" and a Staff Software Engineer at Fastly.

Sy has over a decade in developer tooling and has worked on profilers, compilers, language runtimes, standard libraries, and, of course, debuggers. They’ve also contributed to the standards for C++, DWARF, and HSA. Brand earned a degree in computer science from the University of St. Andrews, specializing in compiler implementation. They also are a poet, filmmaker, musician, activist, and parent to three cats and one entire human.