Alex Martelli

Who is Alex Martelli?

Alex Martelli is an Italian computer engineer and member of the Python Software Foundation. Since early 2005, he works as "Über Tech Lead" for Google, Inc. in Mountain View, California. He holds a Laurea in Electrical Engineering from Bologna University; he is the author of Python in a Nutshell, co-editor of the Python Cookbook, and has written other materials. Martelli won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award, and the 2006 Frank Willison award for outstanding contributions to the Python community.

Before joining Google, Martelli spent a year designing chips with Texas Instruments; eight years with IBM Research, gradually shifting from hardware to software, and winning three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards; 12 as Senior Software Consultant at think3, Inc., developing libraries, network protocols, GUI engines, event frameworks, and web access frontends; and three more as a freelance consultant, working mostly for Open End AB, a Python-centered software house located in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has taught courses on programming, development methods, object-oriented design, and numerical computing, at Ferrara University and other schools.