Daniel Furtado - Python Programming Blueprints: Build nine projects by leveraging powerful frameworks such as Flask, Nameko, and Django

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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.

Marcus Pennington started his journey into computer science at Highams Park Sixth Form College where he took a Cisco CCNA course.

He then went to the University of Hertfordshire, where he graduated with a degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence. Since then, he has had the privilege of working with some of the best developers and learning the benefits and pitfalls of many of the software practices we use today.

He has a passion for writing clean, cohesive, and beautiful code.

Tom Viner is a senior software developer living in London. He has over 10 years of experience in building web applications and has been using Python and Django for 8 years. He has special interests in open source software, web security, and Test-driven development.

Tom has given two conference talks, Testing with two failure seeking missiles: fuzzing and property based testing and Exploring unit-testing, unittest v pytest: FIGHT!

Tom works for Sohonet in central London and sometimes goes backpacking around the world.

Radovan Kavick is the principal data scientist and president at GapData Institute based in Bratislava, Slovakia, harnessing the power of data and wisdom of economics for public good.

He has an academic background in macroeconomics and is a consultant and data scientist by profession.

Radovan is also an instructor at DataCamp and a founder of PyData Bratislava, R <- Slovakia & SK/CZ Tableau User Group (skczTUG).

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