Terao Tetsuya holds a bachelor’s in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University and a master’s in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon. He formally launched his authorial career after working for eight years at Google in the United States, Taiwan, and Japan. His maiden effort Spent Bullets won the Taiwan Literature Awards for Book – Golden Book Award and New Bud Award and, in 2025, was published in English by HarperVia. A film adaptation of Spent Bullets is currently in development, and a comic version of Overfitting, his latest essay collection, is in production as well.