Shay Michael Anderson has been programming and developing software since 1999. He quickly decided on software development as his career and enrolled in a college. He achieved his Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering degree through his studies at Oregon Tech and Colorado Tech. He then received a Master of Science in Software Systems Management from Colorado Tech. While earning his degrees in college, he achieved the undergraduate certificates for Software Engineering Application, Software Engineering Process, Object-Oriented Methods, and Unix Network Administration, and the graduate certificates for Systems Analysis and Integration, Network and Telecommunications, Data Management, and Project Management. Ever since he graduated from college he has been employed as a Web Application Developer, a Software Engineer, and a senior Software Engineer.

He is currently working as a senior Software Engineer for a large e-commerce and retail company. He develops and manages massive software systems, which are backed by a database cluster storing over a billion records. He also publishes open source software on his website, www.shayanderson.com.