Carlos Peña 👋

I am Software engineer with many years of experience programming in Python. I have developed many web applications using Django and PostgreSQL in the backend. I have also done frontend work using Vue.js and GraphQL. I have been writing spiders to crawl the web for open data using Scrapy, selenium and BS4. I have worked in startups, middle sized companies, open source projects and also I have done a lot of pro bono work with Peruvian journalists. I have helped them gather, sort, parse and organize public information from congress candidates in Peru. I created tools that journalists have used to uncover cases of corruption and lobbying. Before that, I have been formally educated as a biologist. I started studying the taxonomy of Neotropical butterflies. Then, I used DNA sequences to infer the evolutionary relationships of butterflies and got a PhD in Evolutionary biology for this. Eventually I got interested in bioinformatics. After that I started working as software engineer.