Frederic De Groef has an MSc in computer science from the Brussels University, Belgium. He previously worked as a researcher in an applied sciences laboratory at the same university. There, he worked on immersive 3D visualization systems and successfully campaigned for the use of Python as the favored tool by students, both as the research and introductory programming language.

He is currently working as a software engineer at SoftKinetic Systems, a subsidiary of Sony that develops time-of-flight sensors and cameras as well as computer vision libraries for gesture recognition, body tracking, and 3D scanning. For 2 years, his focus shifted towards engineering productivity, automation, quality assurance and validation, and API design. Nowadays, his daily work includes extensive use of Python for supporting research and development of machine learning methods, computer vision algorithms, and ToF cameras.

He can be reached at <[email protected]>.

Ivan Kleshnin is a self-employed web developer and consultant. He uses JetBrain's IDEs extensively for his everyday tasks. Ivan likes functional programming, LISP, math, interfaces, and everything in between. Nowadays, he develops rich web applications in JavaScript and Clojure for his commercial and personal projects. Besides programming and reading tech books, he enjoys traveling. He can be reached at <[email protected]>.