Raúl has always been part of the Open Source and the Python community. He used to be one of the Python Barcelona meetup organisers (before 2013), one of the founders of the Asociación Python España and co-organiser of several conferences. He started the official translation of the Spanish documentation for Python and he is currently a Senior Software Engineer working on Apache Arrow where he is a committer and a PMC member of the project. He has also been the release manager of Apache Arrow for the last 3 years.