About the Author

Francesco Pierfederici is a software engineer who loves Python. He has been working in the fields of astronomy, biology, and numerical weather forecasting for the last 20 years.

He has built large distributed systems that make use of tens of thousands of cores at a time and run on some of the fastest supercomputers in the world. He has also written a lot of applications of dubious usefulness but that are great fun. Mostly, he just likes to build things.

I would like to thank my wife, Alicia, for her unreasonable patience during the gestation of this book. I would also like to thank Parshva Sheth and Aaron Lazar at Packt Publishing and the technical reviewer, James King, who were all instrumental in making this a better book.