David Neil Cutler, Sr.

Developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS, VAXELN, and Windows NT, Cutler is a pioneering software engineer.

Cutler's software career started at a small company he founded called Agrippa-Ord, located in Monument Square, Concord, Massachusetts (or possibly in Acton, Massachusetts), marketing software for the LINC and PDP-8 computers.

In October of 1988 he joined Microsoft and led the development of Windows NT. Later, Cutler worked on targeting Windows NT to Digital's 64-bit Alpha architecture. He has been officially involved with the Windows XP Pro 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 SP1 64-bit releases, as well as Windows Vista.

He moved to working on Microsoft's Live Platform in August 2006. Dave Cutler has been awarded the prestigious status of Technical Fellow at Microsoft.