Diomidis Spinellis is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece and a Professor of Software Analytics in the Department of Software Technology at the Delft Technical University in the Netherlands (part-time appointment). In 2013 he worked as a site reliability engineering senior software engineer for Google, while from 2009 to 2011 he served as the Secretary General for Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. His research interests include software engineering, AI applications, and IT security. He holds an MEng in Software Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science both from Imperial College London. Spinellis has published two books in Addison-Wesley’s “Effective Programming Series”: Code Reading: the Open Source Perspective, which received a Software Development Productivity Award in and has been translated into six other languages, and Code Quality: the Open Source Perspective, which also received a Software Development Productivity Award. His most recent book is Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems. Spinellis has also published more than 350 technical papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, which have received more than 15000 citations. His article on the Greek wiretapping case made the front page of the IEEE flagship publication Spectrum. His work has also appeared in other flagship magazines, such as the Communications of the ACM and IEEE Computer. He served for two decades as a member of the IEEE Software magazine editorial board, authoring the regular “Tools of the Trade” (2005–2014) and “Adventures in Code” (2023 until now) columns, and as the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief (2015–2018). Spinellis is the author of many open-source software packages, libraries, and tools. His implementation of the Unix sed stream editor is part of Apple’s macOS and all BSD Unix distributions. From 2013 until 2015 he served as an elected member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors. He is a member of the IEEE Press Editorial Board, Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the IEEE Software magazine, member of the ACM Distinguished Speakers program, and a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE. He is four times winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, a member of the crew listed in the Usenix Association 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award, and a recipient of the 2022 Mining Software Repositories conference Most Influential Paper award. Web page: http://www.spinellis.gr