Juan Pablo came to the States from Santiago, Chile to attend grad school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After earning his Ph.D. in chemistry (yes, chemistry), he became a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Thankfully, his work required him to write data acquisition analysis programs, and his love for programming was born. After spending several years in academics, Juan Pablo decided to make a career out of computers. He joined the Big Nerd Ranch in late 2005 as a Cocoa and Django programmer.
Juan Pablo cut his teeth programming in C for PC's running DOS and then moved on to write data analysis applications in C++ for Windows. When OS X was released he was immediately compelled to return to the Mac and he hasn't looked back since. These days, he is delighted to write Objective-C and Python code in such a cooperative platform.