About the authors

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.