R A Hewitt is a British science-fiction author, CTO, programmer, and systems architect. After beginning his career as a graphic designer and teaching himself web design, he spent more than twenty-five years working in software engineering and systems architecture.His fiction explores intelligence, o...R A Hewitt is a British science-fiction author, CTO, programmer, and systems architect. After beginning his career as a graphic designer and teaching himself web design, he spent more than twenty-five years working in software engineering and systems architecture.His fiction explores intelligence, optimisation, grief, imperfection, and the human cost of systems that become too efficient for the people living inside them. The Optimiser Trilogy brings together a lifelong fascination with computing, visual structure, and science fiction.