[7][8][9] He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation,[10] and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization.

[11][12] Fernando Pérez was born in Medellín, Colombia, and has BSc in Physics from University of Antioquia and a PhD in particle physics from University of Colorado Boulder, where he worked on numerical simulations in Lattice QCD.

[13] He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as an associate professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics.

[1][8][18] He received a 2023 NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal for his leadership of Project Jupyter.

[19] Media related to Fernando Pérez (software developer) at Wikimedia Commons