Matt Pietrek is the author of Windows 95 System Programming Secrets (IDG Books, 1995). He also wrote Windows Internals (Addison-Wesley, 1993) and co-authored Undocumented Windows (Addison-Wesley, 1992).

Matt works for Nu-Mega on debugging technologies. He was the primary architect and project lead for BoundsChecker (16-bit and 32-bit editions). Prior to Nu-Mega, he worked on debuggers at Borland International.

Matt is a contributing editor to Microsoft Systems Journal where he writes the monthly Under the Hood column. In addition, he has written for PC-Magazine, Dr. Dobb's, BYTE, and Windows/DOS Developer's Journal.

In addition to his writing, Matt speaks regularly at industry conferences such as Software Development and WinDev. He also gives in-house Windows 95 internals training seminars.