Yegor Bugayenko is the founder and CEO of Zerocracy, a company developing AI-powered robots for managing software developers. He is a strong proponent of object-oriented programming fundamentals and the author of Elegant Objects, a book series on object-oriented software design. He is also the creator of Zold, a cryptocurrency for fast micropayments, a provocative blogger at yegor256.com, and a practicing Java developer. Yegor is the creator of Cactoos, Takes Framework, JCabi, and Rultor. He is also a philanthropist who donates several thousand dollars annually to the recipients of his own award for the highest-quality software project.