Simon Lau is an Academic Staff at the School of Infocomm in Republic Polytechnic in Singapore. He primarily teaches programming modules in languages such as Java, PHP and Python from Year 1 to Year 3. Before joining RP, he obtained a Masters of Technology (Software Engineering) from the Institute of System Science at the National University of Singapore. He dabbles in Python as a means of creating instructional content for educational purposes as well as a productive tool to ease administrative tasks.