Fernando Pérez (software developer)

Fernando Pérez
Born Medellín, Colombia
Nationality Colombian
Education Physics
Alma mater University of Colorado
Occupation Staff Scientist and Associate Researcher
Employer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Known for IPython programming environment
Awards Free Software Award
Website fperez.org

Fernando Pérez is a physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. He is best known as the creator of the IPython programming environment, [1][2][3][4][5][6] for which he received the 2012 Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation. [7][8][9] He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation,[10] and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization. [11][12]

Life and Career

Fernando Pérez was born in Medellín, Colombia, and has a PhD in Particle Physics from University of Colorado Boulder, where he worked on numerical simulations in Lattice QCD. [13] He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory[13] and associate researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. [11][14]

Pérez began working on IPython as a side project in 2001.[1][8][15]

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