Meet the Instructor

Luis Diego Conejo Alpizar

Luis Conejo Alpizar is an electronics engineer and software developer who has worked in the semiconductor industry for more than 15 years. His first contact with programming languages came at the age of 10, when he was given a copy of Turbo Pascal and some sample code, which he modified and used as a template to create his first applications for MS-DOS. After he discovered Python in 2008, it became his language of choice for test-content development (replacing Perl) for semiconductor devices.

Conejo Alpizar currently works at Intel. He started with the company in his native Costa Rica and has since held positions at company sites in Austin, Texas; Santa Clara, California; and now Hillsboro, Oregon. These days, he's working on new ways to use Python to accelerate and improve microprocessor development and testing. His enthusiasm for Python has led to regular attendance at PyCon US, the largest Python developer conference in the world.