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David Santo Orcero was born in 1974, but he was reborn in 1986 when he discovered a ZX-Spectrum. His father said to him that he ought to programme the computer if he wanted to play with it. One month later, his father said that he ought to play with the computer if he wanted to programme. He spend his first year learning BASIC. After his first year, he began to code on Z80 assembler. Assembly and disassembly at hand was not for being cool, but for he didn't find a ZX80 assembler. The Sinclair QL saw his firsts programmes being terminated -early contact with "Software engineering crisis"-. After that, he used an Commodore Amiga , and his first PC computer with MS-DOS and after this, OS/2. He began to use Prolog at 1989, and it became his first programming language during six years. Finally, he converted himself to the true religion, and he began to learn C. Meanwhile, in 1994, he did his first Linux install. He had used SLS, Slackware, RedHat, Debian, Conectiva and Mandrake. Finally, he got his Ms. Sc. degree on Computer Science at Málaga University (Spain), and travel to Brazil, where he is living now. Meanwhile, he has been Unix/Linux teacher in FORMAN (Spain) and in UFG (Brazil), and he has administrated the most weird combination of Unix boxes in some scientific laboratories, always being a strong advocate of free software philosophy.
Nowadays, when he isn't being bitten by mosquitoes, he does his Dr. Sc. degree on molecular biophysics on IBILCE/UNESP (Brazil). He has a FAPESP fellowship in the research project ``Computational methods for molecular biophysics''. He research developing a killer-app that would be delivered as free software as far as they were finished -no later than 2002, or my advisor will (scientifically) kill me-. That killer-app will allow to calculate protein structures and protein functionality using information collected by SAXS and X-ray scattering techniques, with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. He also created and maintains a Mosix cluster that is being used by his research team to study snakes toxines.
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