Ray Salemi, writing as Ray Daniel, is the award-winning author of the Tucker Mysteries published by Midnight Ink. Tucker is a hacker who lives in Boston and solves murders.

Ray Salemi is also a senior verification consultant with Mentor Graphics. Salemi started his career in Electronic Design Automation with Gateway Design Automation, the inventors of Verilog. Since then he has worked for Cadence Design Systems, Sun Microsystems, and several startups. Ray Salemi is the author of the popular introduction to simulation, FPGA Simulation as well as the popular introduction to the UVM, The UVM Primer.