Dr. John Lakos is a senior architect and mentor for software development at Bloomberg LP where he created the BDE team (c. 2001) which maintains Bloomberg's open-source foundation libraries for C++ development worldwide. He is the author of Large-Scale C++ Software Design and Large-Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture (both from Addison-Wesley) and is an active voting member of the C++ Standards Committee. Vittorio Romeo is a senior software engineer at Bloomberg building mission-critical C++ middleware and training colleagues on modern C++. He is also the creator of many open-source C++ libraries and games. Dr. Rostislav Khlebnikov is a team lead and senior software engineer in Bloomberg's BDE team where he directs the development of high-performance C++ foundation software. Alisdair Meredith is a senior software engineer in Bloomberg's BDE team and a long-standing member of the C++ Standards Committee where he was the Chair of its Library Working Group between 2010 and 2015. Language: English