Massimo Di Pierro is Associate Professor at the School of Computing of DePaul University in Chicago, where he directs the Master program in Computational finance and he teaches courses of various topics including Web Frameworks, Network Programming, Computer Security, Scientific Computing and Parallel Programming. Massimo has a PhD in High Energy Theoretical Physics from the University of Southampton (UK) and he has previously worked ad Associate Researcher for the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Massimo is the author of the web2py manual and many publications in the fields of Physics and Computational Finance, and he contributed to many open source projects. He started the web2py project in 2007 and he is currently the lead developer.