Alex Martelli is a member of the Python Software Foundation and works, as of 2006, as "Über Tech Lead" for Google, Inc., in Mountain View, California. He holds a laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica from Bologna University (1980), and is the author of Python in a Nutshell, co-editor of the Python Cookbook, and has written other (mostly Python-related) materials. Martelli won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award, and the 2006 Frank Willison award for outstanding contributions to the Python community. The Python Software Foundation (PSF), is a non-profit organization devoted to the Python programming language. ... Google, Inc. ... Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. ... The University of Bologna (Italian Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is the university of Bologna, the second biggest university in Italy. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ...

Before joining Google, Martelli spent a year designing chips with Texas Instruments; 8 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 3 more as a freelance consultant, working mostly for Open End AB, a Python-centered software house (formerly known as AB Strakt) located in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has taught courses on programming, development methods, object-oriented design, and numerical computing, at Ferrara University and other schools. According to Martelli's self-evaluation, his proudest achievement is the articles that appeared in Bridge World (January/February 2000), which were hailed as giant steps towards solving issues that had haunted contract-bridge theoreticians for decades. Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), better known in the electronics industry (and popularly) as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, USA, renowned for developing and commercializing semiconductor and computer technology. ... IBM Research, a subsidiary of IBM, has existed since 1945 and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects. ... Location of Gothenburg in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden County Västra Götaland County Province Västergötland Charter 1621 Government  - Mayor Göran Johansson Area  - City 450 km²  (174 sq mi)  - Water 14. ... The University of Ferrara (Università degli Studi di Ferrara) is main university of the city of Ferrara in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. ...

Bibliography

• Martelli, Alex (July 2006). Python in a Nutshell. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-10046-9. 
• Martelli, Alex; David Ascher, Anna Ravenscroft (March 2005). Python Cookbook. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-00797-3. 

External resources

• Much of Martelli's writing can be found at his personal home page.

Note: This article is based on autobiographical material at http://www.aleax.it/bio.txt, released as GFDL.