Ted Malone

Ted Malone is an author, technology executive, architect, and lifelong student of history. Over a career spanning data, analytics, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence—including multiple roles at Microsoft—he has focused on making complex systems understandable, trustworthy, and useful.

In addition to his role at Microsoft, Ted serves as the de facto Chief Technology Officer of CorpusIQ, where he helps build technology that enables AI assistants to work with live business information while preserving consistent definitions, verifiable sources, and organizational context. His professional work continually returns him to questions of trust: how people interpret incomplete information, how different perspectives shape decisions, and how understanding can be built across unfamiliar boundaries.

Before beginning his career in technology, Ted served in the United States Air Force as a KC-135 pilot. That experience—and the lasting importance of service, teamwork, and shared responsibility—drives his continued work mentoring military veterans as they transition into technology careers, as well as his volunteer work with the USO.

These same questions of trust, perspective, duty, and belonging inform his fiction. In A’Viking West: The First Shore, Ted turns his attention to the Norse arrival in North America around the year 1000. Told from both Norse and Indigenous perspectives, the novel explores first contact through the lives of two young men whose families, loyalties, and ideas of belonging place them on opposite sides of an encounter neither fully understands.

Ted’s interest in history is grounded not only in events and chronology, but in the people who lived through moments of profound change. His fiction examines courage, identity, family, and the difficult work of seeing the world through someone else’s eyes.

Ted lives in Arizona with his wife, Mary; their son, Steven; and Thor, the family Rottweiler. When he is not writing or working with technology, he enjoys exploring the Arizona desert in his Can-Am and discovering the history, landscapes, and stories held within it. He is currently at work on the continuing A’Viking West series.