EuroPython 2016

Michele Simionato

Michele Simionato
Tagline
Legacy code warrior
Website
micheles.github.io
Technical interests
Science
Location
Milan, Italy
Company
GEM
Job title
Senior Developer
Website
www.globalquakemodel.org
Compact biography

Starting from October 2012 I work with GEM, a non-profit foundation specialized on earthquakes and seismic risk assessment. I am the maintainer of the Openquake Engine and since March 2014 I have been working full time on it. Before that I had a long and variegated professional history. I started out as a Theoretical Physicist, working on General Relativity, Supergravity and then going into the Renormalization of Quantum Field Theory which was the subject of my Ph. D. I have been doing several years of postdoc research on Equilibrium and Out of Equilibrium Quantum Field Theory. In 2003 I quit Physics and moved into software development, working with Plone and several Web technologies. I am a Python expert, but I also have experience with several other languages. I wrote several technical papers and a book-size collection of articles called The Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland. In 2005 I was hired by StatPro in Milan and spent 7 years working with databases and web applications in the field of financial risk assessment. I am also one of the founders of the Italian Python Association.