Mario Munoz
In my past lives, I've enjoyed playing guitar and bass, kicking a soccer ball, or playing an occasional video game. In my career, I've been an editor at a non-profit, taught as a pre-school teacher, managed payroll for a professional baseball team, and worked as an analyst/project manager for HR systems. More recently, I've been working as a software engineer for a company called BCM One.
I also code Python by night, which is what happens when there's not enough time during the day. In the past couple of years, I've presented several talks/tutorials at PyCon US, DjangoCon US, Python Web Conference, North Bay Python, PyGotham, PyOhio, and others. Sometimes I neglect/blog on my website Python By Night, and start (or abandon) too many side projects.
Session
The historical roots of the current-day tech sector is infected with eugenic ideals, misogyny, and fascism. It's not hard to trace a line from William Shockley, inventor of the transistor, to current powerhouses such as Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others—each espousing subtle or not-so-subtle visions of a techno-utopian future devoid of "low IQ" citizens.
Whether purposefully or not (maybe a bit of both), technology has aided and abetted in the creation of an environment that favors the wealthy and privileged and preys on the disadvantaged.
Open software provides an avenue to tip the scales from a ruthless market toward an economy of empathy. We must emerge from the grasp of our troubled past, not by ignoring it, but by reckoning and repairing the broken pieces.