Ade Miller currently works for CenturyLink Cloud, formally Tier 3. He is a member of the agile development team which is responsible for all aspects of the cloud platform. CenturyLink Cloud offers a complete cloud management platform for mid-tier to large enterprises, as well as SaaS providers.Prior to joining Tier 3 Ade worked at Microsoft for ten years. He had several roles including; Software Architect with Microsoft Studios, Program Manager with the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 team working on LINQ to HPC and Development Lead for Microsoft's patterns & practices group. Before joining Microsoft, Ade worked on a variety of interesting projects including a web start-up, embedded languages, and High Performance Computing.Ade's primary interests are parallel and distributed computing and improving the way teams develop software through engineering leadership. He is one of the authors of C++ AMP: Accelerated Massive Parallelism with Microsoft Visual C++, Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ and Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET. Ade also writes and speaks about parallel computing and his experiences with agile software development at Microsoft and elsewhere. Ade received his BSc and PhD in Physics from the University of Southampton, UK.