Facundo Batista is a specialist in the Python programming language, with more than 15 years of experience with it. He is a core developer of the language, and a member by merit of the Python Software Foundation. He also received the 2009 Community Service Award for organizing PyCon Argentina and the Argentinian Python community as well as contributions to the standard library and work in translating the Python documentation.

He delivers talks in the main Python conferences in Argentina and other countries (The United States and Europe). In general, he has strong distributed collaborative experience from being involved in FLOSS development and working with people around the globe for more than 10 years.

He worked as a telecommunication engineer at Telefónica Móviles and Ericsson, and as a Python expert at Cyclelogic (developer in chief) and Canonical (senior software developer, his current position).

He also loves playing tennis, and is a father of two wonderful children.