Claudio Sparpaglione holds an MD in Computer Engineering from Università degli studi di Pavia, Italy, achieved in 2007. He later worked as software engineer and architect in various industries (Geospatial Application Systems development and integration, Web and Mobile Advertising, Telecommunications, Fashion Brand Protection).Claudio worked in London in 2014 for a UK start-up as a software engineer and in 2015 became CTO of an Italian start-up. He currently works for the largest Italian bank as application engineer and deals with innovation topics.nClaudio is a Pythonista with exposure to other languages (JavaScript, Java, and PHP). He’s passionate about the design and implementation of highly-scalable web systems and APIs, about cloud, mobile and scientific computing, and he’s fascinated by cryptocurrencies.nClaudio is a Linux advocate and an active contributor to the open source software community: he’s the maintainer of the PyOWM Python project and contributes to projects such as Requests and Reactive Manifesto.nGitHub: https://github.com/csparpanWebsite: http://csparpa.github.ionBlog: http://csparpa.github.io/blognTwitter: @csparpa