Ade Miller is currently a Principal Program Manager for Dryad and DryadLINQ a set of technologies that support data-intensive computing applications running on a Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 cluster. Previously he was the Development Lead for Microsoft’s patterns & practices group (p&p) where he managed p&p’s agile development teams. His primary interests are parallel computing and in engineering leadership to improve the way people develop software.

He is one of the authors of Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET and Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++. Ade also writes and speaks about parallel computing and his experiences with agile software development at Microsoft and elsewhere.

Prior to leading the p&p development team Ade lead the development of the p&p Web Services Software Factory. He was a developer and then a Development Lead on Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 and 2008. Before joining Microsoft Ade worked on a variety of interesting projects including a web start-up, embedded languages, and High Performance Computing (HPC). Ade received his BSc and PhD in Physics from the University of Southampton, UK.