Filipe is a co-founder of Vinta, where he works writing valuable products for his clients. He loves well-designed software and beautiful code as well as teaching, giving talks and attending tech conferences. He is the maintainer of well known open source projects such as tapioca-wrapper and django-role-permissions. As a Pythonista, he believes simple is better than complex, and that this should be a mantra for most things in life. Riding bikes and watching 'The Office' are some of his preferred activities on the free time.