Fred Hebert is the author of Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!, a free online (also paid for, on paper) book designed to teach Erlang, and of Erlang in Anger, a follow-up ebook about operating Erlang systems in production. He works as a lead member of technical staff on Heroku’s routing team, helping design, program, maintain, and operate large scale distributed systems in the cloud, more often than not written in Erlang.

Prior to that, he worked at AdGear, helping develop and operate a real-time bidding service in Erlang, right after having spent a year writing training material and teaching Erlang professionally.