Hugo L Tavares

Hugo Lopes Tavares is a software developer from Brazil who currently works as a platform engineer at Yipit, a technology company focused on data aggregation and analysis. Prior to his work in the United States, Hugo worked on live streaming video development for Globo.com, the Internet branch of Grupo Globo, which is the largest media conglomerate in Latin America. Having been involved in open source software, he has made a significant impact in this field. He was a main contributor to pip (the Python package installer), wrote improvements to CPython and the Python standard library, coauthored Splinter (a web-testing tool), and contributed to many well-known projects. Some of his contributions can be found at https://github.com/hltbra. Additionally, Hugo worked at NSI (Information Systems Research Group), carrying out research and development on agile methods and software quality for the Brazilian government. Within his research, he created some testing tools, the most famous of which are Should-DSL and PyCukes, which are mentioned in Python Testing Cookbook, Packt Publishing (Should-DSL has its own section in it). When Hugo is not doing anything related to technology, he is involved in strength training as an amateur powerlifter. You can contact him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/hltbra.