Radovan Bast is employed in Tromsø (Norway) as a senior engineer in the High Performance Computing Group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and contributes to advanced user and application support, code optimization and parallelization, and holds a 50% position at NeIC. He has a PhD in theoretical chemistry and as code developer is contributing to a number of quantum chemistry programs. He enjoys learning new programming languages and approaches, and to teach programming to scientists.