Alessandro Pisa is a full-stack Python developer at Syslab, based in Ferrara, Italy. He earned a PhD in Physics before realizing debugging Python was somehow less mysterious than the universe. After a few years in academia, he turned his passion for programming and open source into a career. He's been working with Plone since 2008 and is a Plone core contributor, former Framework Team member, and maintainer of several packages in the Collective ecosystem.