He holds a B.S. degree in Computing & Information Science from Saint Vincent College in Latrobe Pennsylvania. He is a conference speaker at events such as phpDay 2014 and PHP UK 2015. His research work includes biomedical informatics and machine translation and is a co-author in several peer reviewed publications and a contributor to open source projects. His native language is English and he speaks fluent Italian, has visited ten countries, and his non-career interests are travel, cuisine, and languages.