Manuel Saelices is CTO at Yaco Sistemas, a 30+ people company, mostly Django developers. His experience in Python began in 2003 with the Plone CMS, and in 2006 He fell in love with Django. He currently collaborates in some Django applications as django-player, cmsutils, django-inlinetrans and django-transmeta, and is the project leader and core developer of Merengue.