Diego Russo was born in the spring of 1983 in Terni, a small town in central Italy. During his studies at high school, he discovered a great passion for computing, software development, and open source. In fact, since his first computer Diego has been using GNU/Linux as his primary operating system.

After high school, Diego studied Computer Science at the University of Perugia, in the heart of Italy. Once he completed his Bachelor's degree, he started his career in 2006 as a software developer/sysadmin mainly using Python and Django.

He used these technologies in a variety of projects: management applications, web applications, networking, standalone applications, embedded software, and many others.

Since the fall of 2011, Diego has been working at ARM Ltd in Cambridge (UK) as a senior software developer continuing to use open source software and increasing his knowledge with new technologies and programming languages.

During his professional career, he enrolled again at university to get a specialization in Computer Security.

Among his passions and hobbies we find languages; he speaks three languages (English, Italian, and Spanish). Currently, he's studying Portuguese and he has another language on the to-do list. To add to this, he also has an interest in Esperanto.

Logic, math, and science are also passions of his. Recently he has been developing an interest in the Rubik's cube and puzzles in general.

Last but not least, technologies and all the things with a microprocessor inside them attract his attention.

Diego defines himself as "curious".