Daniel Furtado is a software developer with over 20 years of experience in different technologies such as Python, C, .NET, C#, and JavaScript. He started programming at the age of 13 on his ZX Spectrum. He joined the Bioinformatics Laboratory of the Human Cancer Genome Project in Brazil, where he developed web applications and tools in Perl and Python to help researchers analyze data. He has never stopped developing in Python ever since. Daniel has worked on various open source projects; the latest one is a PyTerrier web micro-framework.