Prashant Sridharan has spent more than thirty years in the technology industry, leading marketing, product, and business development teams at Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Twitter, Timescale, and Tinybird. He is the head of product marketing at Supabase. His nonfiction book, "Picks and Shovels," is considered the definitive guide to technical marketing. His fiction explores the people behind the systems that run the world: their invisible labor, their sacrifices that never make the headlines, and their legacies that outlive the code. "The Midnight Coder's Children" is his first novel. He lives in Lisbon, Portugal, and San Francisco, California.