Physicist. Open-source programmer. Science & IT consultant. Music composer.

Have been loving science since 1980.

Started programming in 1983. Worked with a dozen languages (imperative [Python, C++, IDL,…], functional [Caml], stack-based [Postscript, HP RPL], constraint-based [Prolog], flow-based [LabView], and assembly [Motorola 68000, HP Saturn]).

Have been working with Unix since 1994.

Started programming in Python in 2006, and still loving it! Have been teaching Python to researchers, engineers and graduate students since 2009.