Jan Gray is the President of Gray Research LLC, Bellevue, WA, USA. Jan is a software architect and computer architect. Formerly a Partner Software Architect at Microsoft, Jan's developer tools and platforms products include Alice Pascal, Microsoft C/C++ 7.0, Visual C++ 1.0-4.0, Transaction Server 1.0, 2.0, COM+ Services, Common Language Runtime / Microsoft .NET performance engineering, and the MS Parallel Computing Platform (Visual Studio 2010). Blame Jan for .PDB files. Jan is also an expert in computing with FPGAs. He designed the first 32b FPGA RISC SOC (1995), first FPGA RISC multiprocessor (1999), first kilocore RISC-V, and first kilocore RV64I with HBM. Jan has over 60 patents granted in US, Europe, and Asia.