Sebastián Bassi is a Biotechnologist with experience both in software development and bioinformatics research. He worked in a leading biotech company doing molecular marker database curation and in a national research institute helping with the bioinformatics support of the international effort to sequence the Tomato Genome. Both positions involved Python development and intensive data manipulation. He made a web application to query a micro RNA database, which was published at BMC Plant Biology. He also worked on the first Linux distribution for bioinformatics (DNALinux). He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and is frequently invited to Python conferences. He is the author of Python for Bioinformatics (https://www.py3.us/)