Herb Sutter

Sutter was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, and studied computer science at Canada's University of Waterloo.

[3][4] In recent years Sutter was lead designer for C++/CX and C++ AMP.

[4] In November 2024, after 22 years at Microsoft, Sutter left to join Citadel Securities.

[5] Sutter has served as the chair of the ISO C++ standards committee since 2002.

[6][3][4] In 2005, Sutter published an article titled "The Free Lunch Is Over"[7] that claimed that microprocessor serial-processing speed was reaching a physical limit leading to two main consequences: The article is seen as highly influential in subsequent system design.