Samuele Pedroni is one of the main developers and designers of PyPy, a
meta-circular implementation of Python trying to redefine the
simplicity/flexibility/performace trade-offs in VM design.

PyPy is both an open source and a funded project under the Framework
Program 6 of the EU.

Samuele Pedroni has a long-time interest in language design and
implementation, data-flow and abstract interpretation based program
analysis and manipulation and dynamic dispatching.

He has been a long time maintainer of Jython (Python implementation
for the JVM). He has also contributed to aspects of the current design
of Python. He is a Python Software Foundation member.

Samuele Pedroni received a Computer Science flavoured Mathematics Diploma
from ETH Zurich.