Ricardo Bánffy is a hardware engineer by training and software engineer at heart. He has been writing executable poetry since the late 1980s in all types of languages for all kinds of computers, from GUI tools for Apple II+ computers  and business software for mainframes to hardware provisioning and monitoring tools for massive Linux clusters. A passionate Python advocate since the late 1990s, he is often busy attending or speaking at conferences and local meetups. His most recent work involves orchestration tools for transforming large datasets using Python and lots of clever tricks.