Luciano Ramalho was a web developer before the Netscape IPO in 1995, and switched from Perl to Java to Python in 1998. He joined Thoughtworks in 2015, where he is a Principal Consultant in the São Paulo office. He has delivered keynotes, talks, and tutorials at Python events in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and also presented at Go and Elixir conferences, focusing on language design topics. Ramalho is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation and cofounder of Garoa Hacker Clube, the first hackerspace in Brazil.