I like lists so here it is: 1. Married + 2 boys 2. Professional life: 15 years in the industry, started as QA and stepped up the ladder. Backend developer at heart. Passionate about distributed systems and creating a healthy and vibrant engineering culture. 3. Things I appreciate: working with talented and honest people (love my team at BigPanda for being just that!), good wine and a juicy steak, sci-fi books with moral implications, video games with interesting narratives 4. Things I'm scared of: the size of the universe