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Guests on Talk Python


We've had so many amazing guests on the show over the years. You can find them all here, sorted by number of appearances and recency.

Brett Cannon
Python core developer; snarky Canadian. Mastodon at @brettcannon@fosstodon.org
12 Episodes
Anthony Shaw
Anthony Shaw is a Python Software Foundation Fellow, ASF member, and Python-author. He works at Microsoft on the Open-Source Advocacy team focused on Python.
12 Episodes
Brian Okken
Podcast Host of Python Bytes and Test and Code. Author of “Python Testing with pytest”. Software engineer.
12 Episodes
Paul Everitt
Paul is the Head of Developer Advocacy at JetBrains. Before that, Paul was a co-founder of Zope Corporation, taking the first open source application server through $14M of funding. Paul has bootstrapped both the Python Software Foundation and the Plone Foundation. Prior to that, Paul was an officer in the US Navy, starting www.navy.mil in 1993.
8 Episodes
Reuven Lerner
Reuven Lerner helps developers around the world to become more fluent in Python. He'd love to find ways to make you a better developer, too! Most days, he works on-site with companies around the world (US, Europe, Israel, and China), teaching their engineers and staff.
6 Episodes
Michael Kennedy
Michael Kennedy is a Python enthusiast and entrepreneur. He's the host of Talk Python and Python Bytes podcasts, and founder of Talk Python Training. Michael is a Python Software Foundation (PSF) Fellow and is based in Portland, OR USA. Find him at https://mkennedy.codes.
6 Episodes
Charlie Marsh
Building Ruff. Python, Rust, and WebAssembly. Past: Staff software engineer @ Spring Discovery, Khan Academy.
6 Episodes
Carol Willing
Project Jupyter, nteract, and CPython core developer @ python | jupyter | jupyterhub | ipython | nteract | pysplash.
6 Episodes
Ines Montani
Ines is a developer specializing in applications for AI technology. She's the co-founder of Explosion AI and a core developer of spaCy, one of the most popular libraries for Natural Language Processing, and Prodigy, an annotation tool for radically efficient machine teaching.
6 Episodes
Samuel Colvin
Python & Rust developer with a hint of TypeScript, maintainer of pydantic and other libraries.
6 Episodes
Jay Miller
Jay is a Developer Advocate at Elastic, based in San Diego, Ca. A multipotentialite, Jay enjoys finding unique ways to merge his fascination with productivity, automation, and development to create tools and content to serve the tech community.
6 Episodes
Dan Bader
Full-stack Pythonista & Python Coach. Write Clean and Pythonic code with my free tutorials, books, and courses.
6 Episodes
Sebastián Ramírez
Sebastián Ramírez (tiangolo) is the creator of FastAPI, Typer, and other open source tools. He is currently a developer in Berlin, Germany.
5 Episodes
Barry Warsaw
Barry was the project leader of Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager. He works on Python and used to be lead maintainer for Jython. He contributes to many other open source projects. His day job is at LinkedIn. He is a working semi-pro musician and has been playing Tai Chi (Yang style short form, sword, and sensing hands) since 2002.
5 Episodes
Łukasz Langa
Python committer since 2010. Chronic perfectionist. Pianist. Dad. Spreads the gospel of type checking to anyone who's listening. In his free time helps Facebook adopt Python 3.
5 Episodes
Cecil Phillip
Cecil Phillip is a software developer who’s been around the .NET space for some time. He's originally from the island of Antigua, but currently calls South Florida home. Over his career, he’s worked in different roles and created software solutions for various industries such as finance, education, HR, and healthcare. Today, he's a Developer Advocate at Stripe where he helps developers with incorporating payment processing in their applications.
5 Episodes
Philip Jones
Phil is the primary author of the Quart web microframework. Phil works as the tech coordinator for Smarkets in London, spending his day organizing and managing the tech teams and some of his evenings on open source. Before that, he worked as a particle physicist and has a doctorate in particle physics from the University of Oxford.
4 Episodes
David Lord
David Lord is the lead maintainer of the Pallets open source organization, including Flask, Jinja, and Click, as well as many other libraries. He is a member of the Python community and a PSF fellow.
4 Episodes
Jodie Burchell
Dr. Jodie Burchell is the Developer Advocate in Data Science at JetBrains, and was previously a Lead Data Scientist at Verve Group Europe. She completed a PhD in clinical psychology and a postdoc in biostatistics, before leaving academia for a data science career. She has worked for 7 years as a data scientist in both Australia and Germany, developing a range of products including recommendation systems, analysis platforms, search engine improvements and audience profiling. She has held a broad range of responsibilities in her career, doing everything from data analytics to maintaining machine learning solutions in production. She is a long time content creator in data science, across conference and user group presentations, books, webinars, and posts on both her own and JetBrain's blogs.
4 Episodes
Christopher Trudeau
Christopher Trudeau is a hands-on technical leader who builds high performance teams. His experience includes a variety of industries including cloud, gaming, marketing, travel, finance and consulting. Company experience ranges from small start-ups to Fortune 500 players such as IBM, AOL and Disney. He's a Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner and Certified Scrum Professional. Chris has a Bachelor & a Master in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo where his research was on the reverse engineering of distributed computing systems. He has a passion for building strong teams and believe this is achieved through iterative practices and education. Chris is a strong advocate for automation throughout the delivery process and has used a variety of technologies to help deliver on many platforms, most recently specializing in python/Django deployments.
4 Episodes
Matthew Rocklin
Matthew Rocklin is a long-time OSS maintainer in the Python data ecosystem, primarily known for his work on parallel computing through Dask. Matt worked at Anaconda and then NVIDIA before starting Coiled, a startup focused on making it easier for everyone to access large scale cloud resources.
4 Episodes
William Vincent
William is the author of 2 (soon to be 3) books on web development with Django. He was an early employee at multiple startups including Quizlet and has taught computer science at Williams College.
4 Episodes
Matthew Makai
Matt Makai has been programming with Python for almost 20 years and is currently the VP of Developer Relations at DigitalOcean. He previously led developer evangelism and technical content teams at Twilio, AssemblyAI, and LaunchDarkly after many years working as a professional software engineer. Matt still codes every day, now often with AI coding tools plus his trusty Vim+tmux set up, and is best known for his side projects Plushcap and Full Stack Python.
4 Episodes
Glyph
Although most well-known for being the original founder of the Twisted project, Glyph has also worked on massively multiplayer online games, dynamic web applications, enterprise information management software, and created or contributed to dozens of open source projects. He has run Python programs, and written Python programs to be run, on mainframes, on custom-built embedded devices, and just about everything in between.
4 Episodes
Richard Campbell
Podcasting at dotnetrocks.com and runasradio.com and building software for disaster relief at htbox.org.
4 Episodes
Gina Häußge
Passionate code monkey 🐒 Geek 👩‍💻 Gamer 🎮 Hobby baker 👩‍🍳 Creator & maintainer of OctoPrint 🐙 GitHub Star 🌟.
4 Episodes
Will McGugan
Will is a freelance software engineer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Will has worked with Python for more than 15 years, building web applications and cloud services. He is the author of Beginning Games Development with Python and Pygame, and has created a number of popular Python packages. In his spare time, Will enjoys photographing wildlife, from bears to komodo dragons.
4 Episodes
Anna-Lena Popkes
Anna-Lena Popkes is an enthusiastic learner who is always looking for new projects and challenges. She is deeply fascinated by machine learning and its applications in questions that affect and benefit many people.
4 Episodes
Pablo Galindo Salgado
Python Steering Council and core developer. Python 3.10/3.11 release manager. @ThePSF Fellow. Deals with black holes and parsers. Attracts linker problems.
4 Episodes
Steve Dower
Steve is an engineer who tells people about Python and then gives them excuses to use it and great tools to use it with. He is a core contributor and Windows expert for CPython, and works at Microsoft making sure Python developers are well supported across Windows, Azure, and other Microsoft platforms.
4 Episodes
Bob Belderbos
Bob Belderbos is a passionate Pythonista and software developer. He wants to help make you a well rounded Python developer. It might even be a career changer.
4 Episodes
Emily Morehouse
Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel is the Cofounder and Director of Engineering of Cuttlesoft, a digital product development agency focused on creating beautifully designed and highly scalable custom software. Her passion is driven by the unique blend of empathy, strategy, curiosity, and human-centered design. When she isn’t leading Cuttlesoft, Emily is an avid Open Source Software contributor and constant learner with side projects focused on automating the mundane, improving daily life, and shedding light on the complexity of the human experience. A graduate of the Florida State University, Emily holds bachelor's degrees in Computer Science, Criminology, and Theatre.
4 Episodes
Jonathon Morgan
Jonathon is the CEO of Popily, the automatic data startup, a co-host of the Partially Derivative data science podcast, and believes in significant whitespace.
4 Episodes
Philip Guo
Philip Guo is an assistant professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego. He researches human-computer interaction (HCI), with a focus on user interfaces for online learning. He is especially interested in studying how to better train software engineers and data scientists. He created a free Web-based visualization tool for learning programming called Online Python Tutor (pythontutor.com), which has been used by over 3.5 million people in over 180 countries to visualize over 30 million pieces of code.
4 Episodes
Mahmoud Hashemi
Mahmoud Hashemi is lead developer of the Python Infrastructure team at eBay/PayPal, where he focuses his development and instruction energies on service frameworks, API design, and system resiliency. Outside of work, he enjoys coding on his open-source projects (github.com/mahmoud), as well as creating and maintaining several Wikipedia-based projects, such as Listen To Wikipedia and The Weeklypedia.
4 Episodes
Vincent D. Warmerdam
Vincent is senior data professional who worked as an engineer, researcher, team lead, and educator in the past. He is well known for his PyData talks as well as many side projects for machine learning practitioners. In particular, he maintains calmcode.io, where people can learn how to code … calmly.
3 Episodes
Carlton Gibson
Django and PSF Fellow. Mostly working on and with Django. Building btnapp for simpler deployments. On Mastodon at @carlton@fosstodon.org
3 Episodes
Hugo Bowne-Anderson
Hugo is a Data Scientist at DataCamp, an interactive learning platform for data science, where has has done data journalism, spearheaded the Python curriculum, and evangelized data science in general. In January 2018, he'll launch a podcast for DataCamp called DataFramed, in which he'll explore what types of questions and challenges data science can solve, with experts from industry and academia.
3 Episodes
Peter Wang
Peter Wang has been developing commercial scientific computing and visualization software for over 15 years. He has extensive experience in software design and development across a broad range of areas, including 3D graphics, geophysics, large data simulation and visualization, financial risk modeling and medical imaging. Peter’s interests in the fundamentals of vector computing and interactive visualization led him to co-found Anaconda (formerly Continuum Analytics). Peter leads the open source and community innovation group. As a creator of the PyData community and conferences, he devotes time and energy to growing the Python data science community, and advocating and teaching Python at conferences around the world. Peter holds a BA in Physics from Cornell University.
3 Episodes
Calvin Hendryx-Parker
Calvin Hendryx-Parker is the co-founder and CTO of Six Feet Up, the premier AI and Python agency in the U.S. that celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2024. Calvin’s Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP) is to inspire and enable tech leaders to open minds and bring the world together for a sustainable future. At Six Feet Up, Calvin establishes the company's technical vision and leads all aspects of the company's technology development. Calvin is passionate about the open-source community and specializes in app development, AI, big data and cloud technology. He is regularly sought after to share his expertise — both at international conferences and in the media. Six Feet Up, a top 10 United States Custom Software Development Company according to Clutch.co, was founded with Python at the forefront. In 2019, Calvin was named an AWS Hero — one of only 50 Heroes in North America. He is the co-founder of IndyPy, the largest Python meetup in Indiana with nearly 2,500 members. In 2023, he was named Tech Executive of the Year by the Indiana Business Journal.
3 Episodes
Simon Willison
Simon is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. Datasette is based on Simon's experiences working as a data journalist at the UK's Guardian newspaper. Simon is also a co-creator of the Django web framework. He recently completed the JSK Fellowship program at Stanford.
3 Episodes
Seth Michael Larson
Seth Larson is the Security Developer-in-Residence at the Python Software Foundation. Seth works to improve the security posture of the CPython language runtime, Python packaging tools, and the broader Python package ecosystem interactions with vulnerability infrastructure, security standards, and public policy. Seth maintains multiple open source Python projects focusing on web and security such as urllib3 and truststore.
3 Episodes
Brandt Bucher
Brandt Bucher is a Python core developer working at Microsoft on a team tasked with improving the speed of the CPython interpreter. He has officially been involved in Python development for over five years now, and has improved its performance, stability, and expressiveness in a variety of ways. In addition to his ongoing contributions as part of the "Faster CPython" project in the 3.11-3.14 release cycles, he also helped design and lead the implementation of structural pattern matching, a major new feature of Python 3.10.
3 Episodes
Sydney Runkle
Sydney recently graduated with her BS in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works as a software engineer at Pydantic dev, and is currently the lead maintainer of Pydantic. She loves open source development, small businesses, and listening to podcasts. In her free time, she loves to bike and cook.
3 Episodes
Nicholas Tollervey
Nicholas is a classically trained musician, philosophy graduate, teacher, writer and software developer. He's just like this biography: concise, honest and full of useful information.
3 Episodes
Fabio Pliger
Fabio is also the former Chairman of the EuroPython Society, where he served from 2012 to 2016, Co-Founder of the Python Italia Association, co-chair of the EuroPython Conference from 2012 to 2016 and co-chair of Pycon Italy for several years. For his contributions to the Python community, he was awarded as a Fellow Member of the PSF - Python Software Foundation and of the EuroPython Society.
3 Episodes
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis is a senior staff engineer at MongoDB doing research at MongoDB Labs. He lives and climbs in New Paltz, NY. He wrote Motor, the async MongoDB Python driver, and contributed to MongoDB, the MongoDB C Driver, PyMongo, asyncio, Python, and Tornado.
3 Episodes
Kim van Wyk
A Christian South African happy husband, Electronic Eng, software/DevOps/data engineer (mainly in Python for the last few years), proud member of North Durban Lions & all-round geeky type fellow.
3 Episodes
Ned Batchelder
3 Episodes
Chris Moffitt
Chris is an active python user with over 15 years of experience using python for everything from web development to system administration and most recently data science. He is the author of the popular blog Practical Business Python where he describes how to use python to solve common business problems. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the University of Minnesota.
3 Episodes
Katharine Jarmul
Katharine Jarmul is a Pythonista based in Berlin, Germany focused on data analysis. She's been writing Python for 8 years, and has worked with several startups and larger corporations in her career doing automation, web development, natural language processing and data science. She's one of the founding members of PyLadies (in Los Angeles in 2011) and she recently co-authored a book for O'Reilly on Data Wrangling with Python. You can follow her work via Twitter (@kjam) or on her site: kjamistan.com.
3 Episodes
Rusti Gregory
Rusti Gregory is an educator with 15 years experience teaching technology skills to students and school staff members. He has been teaching HTML and CSS for 10 years at the junior college level, and dabbled in PHP and JavaScript for almost as long. He's an avid maker, experimenter and learner. Rusti started learning Python about 18 months ago with the intention of teaching it someday. He's given up on becoming a python expert and is settling into the role of 'python enthusiast'.
3 Episodes
William Stein
William Stein is the founder of the SageMath open-source mathematical software project, was a Professor of Mathematics at University of Washington until 2019, and is now the CEO/founder of SageMath, Inc., which is a company that provides the cloud-based open-source mathematical software CoCalc to students and researchers. He has published 3 books and dozens of research papers on number theory.
3 Episodes
Matt Harrison
Matt has been using Python since 2000. His experience runs across the domains of search, build management, storage, business intelligence, data science, and machine learning. He currently runs MetaSnake, a Python and Data Science training and consultancy shop.
3 Episodes
Miguel Grinberg
Miguel Grinberg is a Software Developer at Rackspace, where he works on cloud applications. He blogs at blog.miguelgrinberg.com about a variety of topics including web development, Python, robotics, photography and the occasional movie review. Miguel is the author of the O'Reilly book "Flask Web Development”. He lives in beautiful Portland, Oregon.
3 Episodes
Cris Medina
Born and grew up in the Dominican Republic, where I learned programming from my father. I got my BS in Computer Hardware Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Worked over 15 years in the sector with large and medium corps, most of the time in system test engineering. I've built software and hardware test tools, as well as business and end-user apps. Asides from my day job, I run tryexceptpass.org and maintain a few small open source projects.
3 Episodes
Kenneth Reitz
Software Engineer focused on abstractions, reducing cognitive overhead, and Design for Humans.
3 Episodes
Jeff Triplett
2 Episodes
Janek Nouvertné
Passionate Pythonista with a past in carpentry. Maintainer of the Litestar framework. Currently working as a Python dev in Germany.
2 Episodes
Cody Fincher
Litestar Maintainer, working on the Database Blackbelts team at Google.
2 Episodes
Thomas Wouters
Cat owner, Googler, Python Steering Council and the PSF Board, Release Manager for Python 3.12 and 3.13. Masto: @Yhg1s@social.coop
2 Episodes
Gregory M. Kapfhammer
Gregory M. Kapfhammer is an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Allegheny College. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, a program committee member for conferences such as the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation, and a reviewer for journals such as Transactions on Software Engineering. Gregory teaches courses in areas such as algorithm analysis, data structures, software engineering, and operating systems. In addition to conducting research on the topic of flaky tests, Gregory helps to design, implement, document, and maintain open-source software testing and analysis tools that are available on GitHub. You can learn more about Gregory and his teaching, research, and software by visiting his web site at https://www.gregorykapfhammer.com/.
2 Episodes
David Kopec
2 Episodes
Carl Meyer
Carl is a co-founder and active developer-emeritus, providing counsel to the team. He’s a core developer of the Django Python web framework.
2 Episodes
Eric Matthes
Eric Matthes is best known in the Python community as the author of Python Crash Course, the best-selling introductory Python book for many years now. He also writes Mostly Python, a weekly newsletter that aims to help people understand Python at a deeper level, by building on what they already know. Feel free to reach out through email at ehmatthes@gmail.com.
2 Episodes
Russell Keith-Magee
Dr Russell Keith-Magee is a 10 year veteran of the Django core team, and for 5 years, was President of the Django Software Foundation. He's also the founder of the BeeWare project, developing GUI tools to support the development of Python software. When he's not contributing to open source, he's the CTO of TradesCloud, a company providing integrated job management software for tradespeople.
2 Episodes
Feodor Fitsner
Creator of Flet and pglet.
2 Episodes
Hynek Schlawack
Infrastructure and software engineer from Berlin / Germany, PSF fellow, maintainer of too many open-source projects, and contributor to even more. Thinks a lot about robust software, networks, and security.
2 Episodes
Stan Seibert
Stan Seibert is the Senior Director of Community Innovation at Anaconda and contributes to Anaconda's compiler-related projects. He has more than a decade of experience using Python for data analysis as well as GPU computing in C++ and Python. Prior to joining Anaconda, Stan was Chief Data Scientist at Mobi, working on vehicle fleet tracking and route planning. Stan received a Ph.D. in experimental high-energy physics from the University of Texas at Austin and performed research at Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
2 Episodes
Ian Maurer
2 Episodes
Eric Holscher
2 Episodes
Eric Snow
2 Episodes
Roman Right
Author of Beanie - MongoDB ODM. Principal Software engineer at OneTrust
2 Episodes
Matt Wozniski
2 Episodes
Allen Downey
Allen Downey is a curriculum designer at Brilliant.org and professor emeritus at Olin College. He is the author of several books -- including Think Python, Think Bayes, and Probably Overthinking It -- and a blog about data science and Bayesian statistics. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley; and Bachelor's and Masters degrees from MIT.
2 Episodes
Maxime Beauchemin
Maxime Beauchemin is the founder and CEO of Preset. Original creator of Apache Superset. Max has worked at the leading edge of data and analytics his entire career, helping shape the discipline in influential roles at data-dependent companies like Yahoo!, Lyft, Airbnb, Facebook, and Ubisoft.
2 Episodes
Nathaniel Smith
2 Episodes
Ofek Lev
2 Episodes
Pradyun Gedam
PyPA member, PSF fellow, TOML-lang core, sphinx-doc contributor. Past intern at Enthought and IITB.
2 Episodes
Mark Shannon
15+ years experience in software development; primarily in Python and C as well as C++, QL, Java, Forth, and Scheme. Expert in (software) virtual machines for dynamic languages. Expert in static analysis of dynamic languages. Extensive knowledge of compiler and virtual machine technologies. CPython core developer and author of several Python Enhancement Proposals.
2 Episodes
Dustin Ingram
@google open source security team, @thepsf director, @pypi maintainer.
2 Episodes
Vince Knight
Vince Knight is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University in the School of Mathematics. His research interests are in emergent behaviour, probabilistic modelling, applications in healthcare and pedagogy. He maintains a number of open source research software projects, is a trustee of the UK Python association, is an editor for the Journal of Open Source Software, was awarded the 2017 John Pinner award for contribution to the Python community and is a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute. He regularly wins awards for his teaching in the School of Mathematics. He does not only speak at conferences around the world but continues to organise conferences to bring the power of open source software to as many people as possible.
2 Episodes
Sam Lau
Sam Lau is a Ph.D. candidate advised by Philip Guo in the Cognitive Science department at UC San Diego. He studies human-computer interaction (HCI), where he prototypes new software for programming, statistics, and data science instructors to prepare their lessons.
2 Episodes
Mike Bayer
Michael Bayer is the creator of several prominent Python libraries including SQLAlchemy, Mako Templates for Python, Alembic Migrations, and Dogpile caching. He has been working with open source software and databases since the mid-1990s. Today he's active in the Python community, working to spread good software practices to an ever wider audience. Mike is a semi-regular presenter at Pycon US and has also spoken at many smaller events and conferences in the US and Europe. Follow Mike on Twitter at @zzzeek.
2 Episodes
Guido van Rossum
Creator of the Python language and Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) of the language and greater Python ecosystem.
2 Episodes
Scott Shawcroft
Scott Shawcroft is a software engineer. He grew up in Hansville, WA and attended North Kitsap High School in Poulsbo, WA. In June 2009 he graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering with Honors. During his time at UW he interned at Creative Commons and Google. After his graduation he worked at Google full-time as a software engineer on Google Maps until June 2015. In July 2015 he started developing a number of open source software and hardware projects which culminated in his company Chickadee Tech. Below are slide files for presentations he's given and links to many of the projects he has done.
2 Episodes
Mike Driscoll
Mike Driscoll has been programming in Python since 2006. He enjoys writing about Python in his blog, http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/ and contributes to Real Python too. Mike is the author of multiple books about the Python programming language, including Python 101, Pillow: Image Processing with Python and many others.
2 Episodes
Damien George
Damien George is a theoretical physicist working at the University of Cambridge, and has a background in mathematics, physics and computer engineering. He has competed in the "Robocup" competition to make robots play soccer, has written many toy languages, and built a CNC machine. He does research in high-energy physics, in the areas of extra-dimensions, cosmology and quantum field theory. Recently he initiated the MicroPython project to get Python running on microcontrollers and in constrained systems.
2 Episodes
Itamar Turner-Trauring
2 Episodes
Michael Herman
2 Episodes
Sebastian Witowski
Sebastian is a Python consultant and trainer based in Poland. He started his journey with programming as a software developer at CERN, where he fell in love with Python (and teaching). Now he is helping companies untangle their complicated architecture and build all sorts of interesting Python projects. In his spare time, he loves to listen about productivity tricks and all sorts of cool tools that other people are using. If he finds your dotfiles, he will probably steal some aliases from them.
2 Episodes
Tobias Macey
Tobias Macey is a dedicated engineer with experience spanning many years and even more domains. He currently manages and leads the Technical Operations team at MIT Open Learning where he designs and builds cloud infrastructure to power online access to education for the global MIT community.
2 Episodes
Doug Farrell
Doug Farrell is a software developer who's worked in a number of industries and languages. Currently, his language of choice is Python, which he uses to create full-stack web applications. In addition, he evangelizes Python to anyone thinking about learning programming, and even many who aren't. He and his wife are cyclists and completely over-excited grandparents!
2 Episodes
Meredydd Luff
Meredydd is founder and CEO of Anvil, a tool for building full-stack web apps with nothing but Python. He has worked for startups in telecomms and audio encoding, but he has a Ph.D. in usable programming environments, and helping people create software is the most fun he's had yet. He is also a maintainer of the Skulpt Python-to-Javascript compiler.
2 Episodes
Julian Sequeira
Julian is the co-founder of the PyBites website and Code Challenges platform.
2 Episodes
Alessandro Molina
2 Episodes
Ewa Jodlowska
2 Episodes
Luciano Ramalho
Luciano Ramalho is the author of Fluent Python. Ramalho was a Web developer before the Netscape IPO in 1995, and switched from Perl to Java to Python in 1998. Since then he worked on some of the largest news portals in Brazil using Python, and taught Python web development in the Brazilian media, banking and government sectors. He has spoken multiple times at OSCON, PyCon, PythonBrasil, FISL and RuPy. Ramalho is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation and co-founder of Garoa Hacker Clube, the first hackerspace in Brazil. He is a managing partner at Python.pro.br, a training company.
2 Episodes
Eric Chou
Lead Network Automation Nerd at networkautomationnerds.com.
2 Episodes
Brett Slatkin
Brett Slatkin is the author of Effective Python (Addison-Wesley 2015). He's the engineering lead and co-founder of Google Consumer Surveys. He formerly worked on Google App Engine, the PubSubHubbub protocol, and managing Google's server fleet. Outside of his day job, he works on open source tools and writes about software, bicycles, and other topics on his personal website (also published to @haxor). He earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York. He lives in San Francisco.
2 Episodes
David Stewart
David Stewart is a manager in the Data Center Software Technology group in Intel's Software & Services Group. David's team focuses on optimizing open source server dynamic languages such as Python, PHP, HHVM and Node.js. David has been an operating systems and compiler expert for his whole career, starting out with Unix in 1980.
2 Episodes
David Beazley
David Beazley is an independent software developer, teacher, and book author living in the city of Chicago. He primarily works on programming tools and teaches programming courses for software developers, scientists, and engineers. He is the author of the Python Essential Reference and Python Cookbook, 3rd Ed.
2 Episodes
Al Sweigart
2 Episodes
Donald Stufft
Donald Stufft is one of the principle developers working on packaging in Python and is currently responsible for PyPI as well as being a core developer for pip. He is employed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise full time to work on improving packaging for the entire Python ecosystem.
2 Episodes
Roy Rapoport
Roy is currently managing the Insight Engineering organization at Netflix, where they write the powerful telemetry platform and graphics, alerting, and analytics systems on top of it, that allow Netflix to have complete real-time visibility into its operations and systems -- In the cloud, on customer devices, and anywhere else Netflix operates.
2 Episodes
Larry Ogrodnek
Distinguished Software Engineer at Homebound.
1 Episode
Trevor Manz
Trevor is a scientist, programmer, and Wisconsinite living in Brooklyn, NY. He aims to make programming with data more accessible and insightful, and his work explores how software can help people check assumptions, build intuition, and make more grounded decisions. He created anywidget and maintains and contributes to several open-source projects, and he has published research in visualization and AI with a focus on biological applications. He is currently building marimo.
1 Episode
Den Delimarsky
Den Delimarsky is a Principal Product Engineer, currently working at Microsoft, where he helps build developer tools and AI-powered experiences that make engineers more productive. He started his engineering journey all the way back in the 90s, with a 386 box that was barely enough to run DOS games (he's upgraded since then). He spent plenty of time writing code in Visual Basic 6.0 but for more than two decades now he's writing C# and Python, learning C++, Rust, and Go too when he needs to really get out of my comfort zone.
1 Episode
Rodja Trappe
Rodja Trappe is the founder and CEO of Zauberzeug and a veteran Python developer focused on human-friendly user interaction, robotics and automation. He is a co-creator and maintainer of the open-source Python web UI framework NiceGUI and leads full-stack product development, including the open-source ag-robot called Field Friend.
1 Episode
Falko Schindler
Falko Schindler is a software engineer at Zauberzeug and a creator of the open-source web UI framework, NiceGUI. He specializes in building the company’s core software stack for robotics and automation projects.
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Kyle Into
Kyle is a Software Engineer at Meta focused on developer tooling and static analysis. For the past three years he has worked to improve Python language services, now leading efforts on Python in the IDE. Kyle is passionate about building tools that make developers' lives easier, especially in dynamic languages like Python.
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Danny Yang
Danny is a Software Engineer at Meta working on Python type checking. Before that, he has worked on product infrastructure for Facebook Messenger and developer tooling for WhatsApp. Danny is passionate about improving development velocity and code quality for large projects and organizations.
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Abby Mitchell
Abby is a Developer Advocate at Meta focused on supporting the Python Open Source community. She has worn a bunch of hats over her 10+ years in the tech world - software developer, developer advocate, product manager, and people manager - but a consistent thread has been her passion for making technology approachable for all.
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Khuyen Tran
Khuyen Tran is a Senior Developer Advocate at Nixtla with a passion for helping data scientists and engineers build efficient, production-ready workflows. Before joining Nixtla, Khuyen worked at Accenture as a Senior Data Engineer and as a Senior Developer Advocate at Prefect, where she helped data scientists and data engineers automate their data pipelines and adopt best engineering practices. Earlier in her career, she was one of just three data scientists at Freight Science, where she built an end-to-end data science pipeline, covering everything from data validation and processing to machine learning training, monitoring, testing, and output visualization. Beyond her professional work, Khuyen is a prolific educator and content creator: she published over 180 articles on Towards Data Science, reaching more than 100,000 readers each month; built an engaged audience of 44k+ subscribers on Medium. Today she continues to share more than 800 daily Python and data science tips and post articles regularly on her data education platform, CodeCut. She is the author of her new book Production-Ready Data Science, From Prototyping to Production with Python, which aims to teach data scientists and engineers how to take projects beyond the experimental or notebook phase and make them robust, maintainable, and deployable in real-world environments. She is also the author of Efficient Python Tricks and Tools for Data Scientists. Her current mission is to make open-source tools more accessible to the data science community and to educate data scientists on optimal engineering practices for data science projects.
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Tori Westerhoff
Tori is currently a Principal Director leading AI Red Team’s operators who whitehat-hack high-risk GenAI products, systems and models, pre-launch. With a strong 15+ year background in both technology and analytics, Tori previously led strategy for Microsoft AR/VR and Metaverse businesses and worked as a People Analytics lead for Microsoft C-suite members, where she created NLP/AI tools to improve strategy metrics. Before joining Microsoft, she worked in national security strategy with Deloitte Consulting, supporting various intelligence, law enforcement, and defense agencies on human-centric process and procedure design for mission-critical protocals. Tori studied Cognitive Neuroscience at Yale University and an MBA with dual majors in Management and Operations from Wharton, serving as one of the first members of the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative.
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Roman Lutz
Roman Lutz is a Responsible AI Engineer on Microsoft's AI Red Team, specializing in the safety and security of generative AI and open source software. He is a maintainer of PyRIT, Microsoft’s open-source AI red teaming toolkit, and has helped shape projects like Fairlearn and the Responsible AI Dashboard. Roman’s work bridges technical rigor with a commitment to transparency and accountability, empowering practitioners to build more robust and ethical AI systems. He shares his projects and insights at romanlutz.github.io.
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Nat Tabris
Nat Tabris is a staff software engineer at Coiled, where he focuses on building tools to make large-scale cloud compute enjoyable. Before that, he’s been an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer at Fidelity National Finance), an RSE (Research Software Engineer at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute), and has a PhD in Philosophy.
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Thibaud Colas
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Adrian Holovaty
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Benjamin Zaitlen
Benjamin Zaitlen is a System Software Manager for RAPIDS at NVIDIA, where he leads teams developing single and multi-node GPU tooling for PyData. He has been a long-time contributor to the Python and PyData ecosystem and holds an MS in physics from Indiana University.
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Mason Egger
Mason currently works as a Developer Educator at Temporal Technologies who specializes in building community, developer-focused educational content, distributed systems, and Python. Prior to his work at Temporal he worked in Developer Relations at DigitalOcean and as a backend engineer at various companies. He’s an avid programmer, speaker, educator, and writer/blogger. He is President of the PyTexas Foundation, Conference Chair of the PyTexas Conference, and a founding organizer of the PyTexas Meetup.
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Catherine Nelson
Writing books, thinking about Python and data science. Author of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists"
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Bryce Adelstein Lelbach
Principal Architect at NVIDIA working on programming languages. C++ Library Evolution chair emeritus.
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Jim Baker
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David Peck
Dave Peck is an independent software developer based in Seattle, Washington. He is currently building curious new tools for reading and writing on the open web. In the past, he has worked on a variety of startup-style projects of different shapes and sizes. He writes about technology, music, and other facets of “nerdery” on his blog and can also be found on Mastodon, Bluesky, and GitHub.
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Miguel Sanda
Miguel Sanda is the creator and lead developer of Django Ledger, an open-source financial engine for developing financially driven applications using Django and Python. With 18 years of overall experience in data science, software development and project management in the energy, food and financial industries, Miguel brings a wealth of technical knowledge to his financial and software development endeavors. As an accomplished professional and entrepreneur with a diverse background, Miguel combines his expertise in software development, data science and financial management to drive innovation in the accounting and finance sectors. Miguel and his wife Dayana are the founders of EDMA Group, a bookkeeping and financial planning firm that specializes in small business financial strategies. Miguel holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering, a Masters of Engineering, and an MBA in Data Science. Born in Venezuela, moved to the US in 2006, husband, father of 3 and lives in Fort Mill, SC. Miguel enjoys time with family, hiking, food and travel.
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Akshay Agrawal
Akshay is both a researcher, focusing on machine learning and optimization, and an engineer, having contributed to several open source projects (including TensorFlow, when I worked at Google). He has a PhD from Stanford University, where he was advised by Stephen Boyd (as well as a BS and MS in computer science from Stanford).
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Brett Kennedy
Data Scientist with extensive experience in ML Research, Software Development, Software Development Management, and Web Hosting. Experience includes seven years in ML Research at CaseWare International, a world-leading provider of financial auditing software (a market leader for 30 years, available in 130 countries in 16 languages, with 90%+ market share in numerous countries, including Canada).
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Geoff Boeing
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JJ Allaire
JJ is software engineer and entrepreneur who builds tools for communication, research, and software development. He is a hands on technical leader and maintains intimate involvement in all aspects of software design and construction, JJ has started several companies and conceived and designed many industry leading software products including ColdFusion, Onfolio, Windows Live Writer, LoseIt, RStudio, and Quarto.
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Carlos Scheidegger
Carlos Scheidegger is a principal software engineer at Posit, and currently the lead developer in the Quarto project. He holds a PhD in Computing, and did his graduate work in systems for reproducible data analysis. After more than a decade in academia and R&D, he joined Posit to focus on building open-source software. He has a soft spot for fancy typed programming languages and musical instruments with too many strings. He is currently learning the Brazilian 7-string guitar.
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Rich lannone
Richard is a software engineer and table enthusiast. He and R go way back and he's been getting better at writing code in Python too. For the most part, Rich enjoys creating open source packages in R and Python so that people can great things in their own work.
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Michael Chow
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Alex Monahan
Alex Monahan is a forward deployed software engineer at MotherDuck and writes blogs part time for DuckDB Labs. Alex joined MotherDuck a year ago after 9 years at Intel. After starting at Intel as an industrial engineer, Alex later became a technical analyst, and then moved into a data scientist role. Back in 2020 Alex discovered DuckDB while building an internal self-service analytics platform. Alex then became one of DuckDB's biggest Twitter fans! He has been diving deeper into duck-themed databases ever since.
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Vitaliy Kucheryaviy
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Chang She
Chang She is the CEO and cofounder of LanceDB, the developer-friendly, open-source database for multi-modal AI. A serial entrepreneur, Chang has been building DS/ML tooling for nearly two decades and is one of the original contributors to the pandas library. Prior to founding LanceDB, Chang was VP of Engineering at TubiTV, where he focused on personalized recommendations and ML experimentation.
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David Seddon
Staff Engineer at Kraken Technologies Django, Software Foundation member.
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Aaron Powell
Aaron is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Having spent 15 years doing web development he’s seen it all, from browser wars, the rise of AJAX and the fall of 20 JavaScript frameworks (and that was just yesterday!). Always tinkering with something new he explores crazy ideas like writing your own implementation of numbers in .NET, creating IoC in JavaScript or implementing tic-tac-toe using git commits. When not sitting at a computer he can be found running while pushing his two kids in a pram.
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Tanya Janca
Tanya Janca, aka SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding’, ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’ and ‘Cards Against AppSec’. Over her 28-year IT career she has won countless awards (including OWASP Lifetime Distinguished Member and Hacker of the Year), spoken all over the planet, and is a prolific blogger. Tanya has trained thousands of software developers and IT security professionals, via her online academies (We Hack Purple & Semgrep Academy), and her live training programs. Having performed counter-terrorism, led security for the 52nd Canadian general election, developed or secured countless applications, Tanya Janca is widely considered an international authority on the security of software.
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Sheena O'Connell
Sheena has been programming in some form since my early teens. After high school, she went on to get an Honors degree in electrical engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Sheena worked for a string of startups and gained a lot of experience in all aspects of software development,. Sheena has always had a passion for education and had the opportunity to work directly in tech education for the last half decade. The way she thinks of her work is:  I take the science of learning and turn it into the engineering of learning.
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Nikhil Rao
Nikhil is a cofounder and CEO at Reflex (YC W23), an open source framework to build web apps in pure Python and deploy with a single command. Prior to Reflex, he worked on AI teams at Apple and self-driving car startups working on developer tools to build and visualize machine learning models.
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Elvis Kahoro
Elvis is a developer advocate at Reflex (YC W23)--build your both your frontend and backend in Python. Prior to he worked at warp.dev, a modern terminal with AI builtin that's great for teams!
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Stefanie Molin
Stefanie Molin is a full-stack software engineer at Bloomberg in New York City, where she tackles tough problems in information security. She is also a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, a core developer of numpydoc, and the author of “Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas: A Python data science handbook for data collection, wrangling, analysis, and visualization,” which is currently in its second edition and has been translated into Korean and Chinese. She holds a bachelor’s of science degree in operations research from Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, as well as a master’s degree in computer science, with a specialization in machine learning, from Georgia Tech. In her free time, she enjoys traveling the world, inventing new recipes, and learning new languages spoken among both people and computers.
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Marco Gorelli
Marco is a core dev of pandas and Polars and author of Narwhals. He's spoken at several Python conferences, taught Polars professionally, and written the first complete Polars plugins tutorial. He currently works as Senior Software Engineer at Quansight Labs. Before getting involved in open source software, he worked in data science and was one of the prize winners of the M6 forecasting competition. He's an advocate for making it more accessible to contribute to open source software and has run several mentored sprints, aimed both at the general public and at underrepresented groups in tech.
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Chris Ferdinandi
Chris Ferdinandi helps developers with ADHD thrive. Early in his career, he felt like he couldn’t get anything done. Since then, he’s discovered a bunch of systems and strategies that let him turn his ADHD into a superpower. His ADHD tips newsletter is read by hundreds of developers each weekday. He loves pirates, puppies, and Pixar movies.
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Somak Roy
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Ken Kinder
1 Episode
Maria Jose Molina-Contreras
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Jessica Greene
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Wilhelm Klopp
Wil is the founder of Kolo where his mission is to put runtime data at the heart of how we make software. He previously founded Simple Poll, one of the most popular apps for Slack and scaled it to millions in revenue. Wil lives in London and enjoys building side projects and doing triathlons.
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Giovanni Barillari
Physicist, Software Engineer, SRE. OSS contributor and maintainer in Python and Rust ecosystems. In love with radical honesty.
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Wes McKinney
Wes McKinney is an American software developer and businessman. He is the creator and "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL) of the open-source pandas package for data analysis in the Python programming language, and has also authored three versions of the reference book Python for Data Analysis.
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Keiland Cooper
Keiland Cooper is a cognitive scientist, neuroscientist, and AI researcher broadly interested in the dynamics of intelligent systems. He has worked on multiple research projects ranging from how the brain learns and creates memories, to novel artificial intelligence tools, to the neurological impacts of COVID-19. A first-generation college student, Keiland is affiliated with the department of Neurobiology and Behavior, at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the co-founder of ContinualAI, one of the largest global artificial intelligence research non-profits spanning academia and industry. Keiland is a National Science Foundation Fellow and UCI Pedagogical Fellow. Passionate about science communication, Keiland hosts multiple discussions about neuroscience and AI, to audiences ranging from students, the government, or the media.
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Jimmy Chan
Jimmy Chan is a cofounder & the CEO of Dropbase, an internal tools builder for Python developers. @jimmyechan
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Frederick Tubiermont
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Tony Sherman
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Charles Coggins
Charles Coggins is a Senior Software Engineer at Phylum, responsible for integrations and author of the phylum Python package. He is a documentation and quality champion, runner, baseball and scout dad, podfaster, investor, and lover of the outdoors.
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Avery Smith
Avery Smith is the host of The Data Career Podcast & founder of Data Career Jumpstart, an online platform dedicated to helping individuals transition into and advance within the data analytics field. After studying chemical engineering in college, Avery pivoted his career into data, and later earned a Masters in Data Analytics from Georgia Tech. He’s worked as a data analyst, data engineer, and data scientist for companies like Vaporsens, ExxonMobil, Harley Davidson, MIT, and the Utah Jazz. Avery lives in the mountains of Utah where he enjoys running, skiing, & hiking with his wife, dog, and new born baby.
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Pedram Navid
Pedram is the Head of Data Engineering and DevRel at Dagster Labs, previously the Head of Data at Hightouch and has also worked as both a data engineer and a data scientist at small startups and large banks. When he’s not causing trouble online, he’s out birdwatching.
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Tushar Gupta
Curious about tech | SDE @SamagraGovernance | @MLH Fellow'22 | Summer fellow @Processing | GitHub Campus Expert | Open Source ❤️
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Sarah Boyce
Lover of all things #Django and #Python.
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Stanislav Zmiev
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Sarah Kaiser
Dr. Sarah Kaiser is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate @ Microsoft. She talks about #oss, #python, #community, #quantumsoftware, and #quantumcomputing. Sarah currently lives in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Mark Russinovich
Mark Russinovich is the CTO of Microsoft Azure and a Technical Fellow, Microsoft's senior-most technical position. He joined the company when Microsoft acquired Winternals software, which he co-founded in 1996. He is also author of the popular Sysinternals tools.
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Jim Crist-Harif
Jim Crist-Harif is a software engineer with 10+ years experience working on scientific Python OSS. He's currently employed by Voltron Data.
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David Qiu
David Qiu is a software engineer at AWS AI/ML and the founding engineer of Jupyter AI, which began as a prototype in Dec 2022. Since then, Jupyter AI has grown to become a popular open-source digital assistant for JupyterLab users, with over 2,000 stars on GitHub. David is a member of the Jupyter OSS team at AWS AI/ML, led by Brian Granger, co-founder of Project Jupyter.
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Wolf Vollprecht
prefix.dev | Package Management, Robotics and Jupyter
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Ruben Arts
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Jeremy Tuloup
Jeremy Tuloup is a Technical Director at QuantStack and a Jupyter Distinguished Contributor. Maintainer and contributor of JupyterLab, JupyterLite, Jupyter Notebook, Voilà Dashboards, and many projects within the Jupyter ecosystem.
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Afshin T. Darian
Darian is one of the co-authors of JupyterLab and has worked in many different aspects of the open data science ecosystem. He currently serves as a member of the Jupyter Executive Council and is a technical director at QuantStack.
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Mike Fiedler
With over thirty years of software and systems experience, Mike is a seasoned professional who has accumulated extensive knowledge and expertise in the field. He has actively engaged with the Python community, contributing to open source projects and sharing his insights. His leadership roles at companies like Datadog, Warby Parker, and others have enabled him to mentor and guide others in the tech industry. Recognized as an AWS Container Hero and an avid open source maintainer, Mike's dedication to learning, problem-solving reflects his holistic approach to technology. Beyond his professional pursuits, Mike's personal life is just as vibrant. He has been a dedicated volunteer roller derby referee for the past 15 years, and he enjoys experimenting with various vegetarian dishes in the kitchen. Mike currently resides in New York City with his partner, Elyssa.
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Loren Aguey
Software engineer specializing in Flutter. Also dabbles in web development and building REST APIs with Python or Typescript. In 2023, he built the Talk Python Training mobile app in Flutter, alongside Michael, who handled all the back-end elements. In addition, Loren has his own Flutter-based weather app called Epic Skies. Currently working full time as a Flutter developer on the mobile team for an insurance company.
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Harout Boujakjian
Software engineer. Some web, some mobile, some interactive data viz. Co-founder of pinplanet. Lover of breakfast food.
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Andréas Kühne
Fullstack django developer since 2013. Currently working with django backends and angular / ionic frontend to deliver a member administration system.
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Jacob Coffee
Python developer, Rust enthusiast, and Litestar Maintainer working in the DevOps and system engineering space.
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Freddy Boulton
Freddy Boulton is a software engineer trying to make machine learning accessible to everyone. He is working towards that by working on gradio, an open-source python library that lets anyone create fully interactive demos of machine learning models with just a few lines of code.
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Owain Parry
Owain Parry is an early-career researcher working on flaky tests at the University of Sheffield. He has a significant publication history in the field. His diverse contributions include an extensive systematic literature review on the topic, a survey of the developer experience of flaky tests, and a machine learning-driven technique for detecting flaky tests. He regularly publishes to top venues such as Transactions on Software Engineering and the International Conference of Software Engineering. Owain has served several times as a reviewer for Software Testing, Verification Reliability, a top journal in the field of software testing.
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Joe Cheng
Joe Cheng is the CTO of Posit (formerly known as RStudio) and the creator of Shiny, a web framework for data scientists. For the last decade he and the Shiny team have been focused on helping data scientists make their analyses more interactive.
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Zoran Simic
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Amjith Ramanujam
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Koen Vossen
Founder @teamtvsport. @PyDataEindhoven committee member. Founder @PySportOrg. Instructor @Korfbalverbond. @koenvossen@mastodon.social
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Sean Tibor
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Ray McLendon
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Nick Muoh
1 Episode
Mario Munoz
1 Episode
Chris Williams
1 Episode
Jason C. McDonald
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Justin Waugh
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Thomas La Piana
Individual Contributor at Ethyca working on solving privacy engineering problems and shifting privacy left.
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Paul Moore
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James Smith
James is a Digital Signal Processing engineer at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, where he leads the effort to upgrade the MeerKAT telescope's correlator. James learned Python as a hobby in high school, trained as an Electronic Engineer, and has been finding applications for programming in both his personal and professional life all along.
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Jay Salmonson
Jay is a physicist doing research in inertial confinement fusion at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He currently leads a team developing the Python ecosystem and tools for use by the lab's fusion research community.
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Ritchie Vink
Author of Polars | Machine Learning Engineer
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Ben Bariteau
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David Vujic
David is a software developer. Friends may know him as an early adopter of agile ideas and test driven development. He's passionate about things like that, and shares the things he learns regularly to the community. His current favorite programming languages are Python and Clojure. In his spare time, he practices outdoor Parkour and contributes to Open Source, currently focusing on adding features to the Python tools for the Polylith Architecture.
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Sara Issaoun
Sara Issaoun is a NASA Einstein Fellow, observational astronomer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and member of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration. Her research centers around the collection, calibration, and imaging of millimeter-wave radio observations of supermassive black holes. Supermassive black holes generate the highest energy processes in the known Universe, ejecting jets of plasma affecting galaxy environments on large scales, but their dynamics and emission mechanisms remain shrouded in mystery. She makes use of global networks of radio-telescopes to image and study the immediate surroundings of the supermassive black holes at the centers of our Galaxy and the galaxy M87. Sara is a leading contributor of the data analysis and imaging efforts that led to the first image of a black hole in 2019 and the first image of our Milky Way black hole in 2022.
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Gareth Thomas
Software Engineering Director at myenergi.
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Dan Gerlanc
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Markus Schanta
Markus Schanta is a founding partner of BlueBalance Capital, independent, owner-managed alternative asset management company based in Vienna. He's done that for over 3 years now. Before that Markus was a quant at the London-based asset management firm Man Group and before that, he was a quantitative strategist (Strat) at Goldman Sachs. Markus holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York, where he also received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Bachelors degree from Vienna University of Technology.
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Thomas Albin
Thomas Albin is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and scientist from Stuttgart, Germany. Before he joined the automotive industry, Thomas studied Astrophysics and worked on 2 space missions (ESA' mission Rosetta/Philae & NASA/ESA's mission Cassini/Huygens). To continue with his passion for astronomy and education, he created a YouTube channel, focusing on conducting space-related data analysis, machine learning and general coding tutorials using Python.
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Jeroen Janssens
Jeroen Janssens, PhD, is a data science consultant and RStudio-certified instructor. His expertise lies in visualizing data, implementing machine learning models, and building solutions using Python, R, JavaScript, and Bash. He’s passionate about helping and teaching others to do such things. Since 2013, Jeroen runs Data Science Workshops, a training and coaching firm that organizes open enrollment workshops, in-company courses, inspiration sessions, hackathons, and meetups.
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Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez
On a mission to accelerate the Solidarity Economy through technology ♻️. Advocate by day, rants about bad UX in F/LOSS by night. In love with SciPy & PyData. Open knowledge, radical transparency. Trying to make a positive impact.
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Timo Furrer
Timo Furrer is an enthusiastic Software Engineer currently working for GitLab as Senior Backend Engineer where he focuses on the "Configuration" and "Operations" stages of the DevOps Lifecycle. He's been working professionally with Python for the last 10+ years and maintains a few Open Source Packages in the Python ecosystem.
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Irit Katriel
CPython Core Dev. Working @Microsoft.
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Benjy Weinberger
Benjy Weinberger is a software engineer with over 25 years' experience in building scalable distributed systems. He's worked at several companies, including Google, Twitter, and Foursquare, and is one of the original creators of the Pants open-source build system. Benjy has been an avid Python user since version 2.2 in 2002. He indulges his longstanding interest in cutting-edge build systems as a co-founder of Toolchain, a startup that provides SaaS, support and professional services around Pants.
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Martin Turoci
Martin is currently a software engineer at H2O.ai where he tries to democratize the UI web development and bring it closer to Python world by working on H2O Wave, a framework for building beautiful web apps and dashboards. Open-source enthusiast, vim lover and jack of all trades. Author of VScode and Jetbrains plugins for H2O Wave. In his free time, he loves spending time with his wife and family.
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Alex Grönholm
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Rhet Turnbull
Rhet is a career US military officer. Rhet entered the Air Force in 1995 after graduating from the US Air Force Academy. In 2021, he transferred from the Air Force to the US Space Force where he serves as an astronautical engineer. Rhet has been coding since 1981 when his dad brought home a TRS-80 Model III computer. He discovered Python in 2018 and now spends his spare time finding ways to automate and hack his Mac with Python.
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Alex Waygood
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Tonya Sims
Python Developer Advocate Deepgram AI. Former Python DevRel at Vonage, Pharma Sales at Pfizer. Hall of Fame Basketball Player for UWMadison 🏀.
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Shayne Boyer
Principal PM Mgr Azure Developer Tools & E2E Microsoft, OpenJSF Board, Husband, Father.
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Geraint Palmer
Geraint Palmer is a Welsh Medium Lecturer at Cardiff University in the School of Mathematics. He is a member of the operational research group where his research interests are in simulation and probabilistic modelling, in particular applying these to model public services such as healthcare systems. He uses open source software in all aspects of his research: he is a maintainer of Ciw, an open source Python library for discrete event simulation, and won the OR Society's Doctoral Award in 2018. Geraint is also a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute and has presented at a number of international conferences on the subject of best practice of scientific computing, and regularly teaches programming and runs coding workshops for people of all ages.
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Chad Smith
Chad is an aerospace engineer turned software engineer. He is the author of pipx, gdbgui, TermPair and other open source projects. Chad is currently a software engineer at Meta in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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James Maslek
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Germán Méndez Bravo
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Andrew Knight
Andrew Knight is a software engineer. His specialty is building test automation systems from the ground up, which involves both software development for test code as well as the infrastructure to run it in continuous integration. He also does Web dev and tool dev from time to time, and I love databases and compiler theory. His main programming languages are Python, Java, C#, and JavaScript, but Andrew has worked with others and can pick up new ones quickly. He holds a Computer Science BS/MS from RIT, and he is currently employed by PrecisionLender in Cary, NC.
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Michael Christofides
Michael Christofides is a product manager turned founder with a particular interest in database tools. Over 5 years at Redgate, he managed tools for SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL, but now focuses 100% on Postgres. Today he runs pgMustard, a tool that helps developers learn about database performance while speeding up queries.
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Chris White
Chris White is a mathematician turned machine learning engineer, passionate about building data-intensive tools which expose the right abstractions. He is the CEO at Prefect. He received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Prof. Rachel Ward in August 2015. Broadly speaking, his research consisted of developing and analyzing new data-driven optimization problems. Outside of my research I also enjoyed working on various consulting and personal projects - anything involving analyzing data and/or modeling.
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Ondřej Čertík
Senior Compiler Developer at GSI Technology. Former scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Ondřej is the original author of SymPy, SymEngine and LFortran.
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Aaron Meurer
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Claudio Jolowicz
Claudio Jolowicz is a software engineer with 15 years of industry experience in C++ and Python, and an open-source maintainer active in the Python community. He is the author of the Hypermodern Python blog and project template, and co-maintainer of Nox, a Python tool for test automation. In former lives, Claudio has worked as a lawyer and as a full-time musician touring from Scandinavia to West Africa. Get in touch with him on Twitter: @cjolowicz
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Ryan Abernathey
CEO and co-founder of Earthmover. Associate professor in the Columbia University Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. Research group website can be found at ocean-transport.github.io. There you can read more about my research. Co-founder and community leader of the Pangeo Project.
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Joe Hamman
Joe Hamman is a climate scientist and engineer. He is an active developer of a number of open-source Python, C, and Fortran software projects. Previously, Ia co-founder and the Technology Director at CarbonPlan, a non-profit working on data science and policy issues surrounding carbon removal and climate solutions, and a Project Scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Washington State and has a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington.
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Christian Heimes
Python core developer, Python security team at the PSF fellow, speaker. On Mastodon at @tiran@mastodon.social.
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Vishnu Rachakonda
Vishnu is a machine learning engineer working on a healthcare product. Motivated to learn about and solve problems in these realms.
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Kate Kuznecova
Kate Kuznecova is a data scientist at OLX Group based in Berlin, Germany. Currently, she is working on projects with a focus on Natural Language Processing and experimentation. Having transitioned to a career in data from a marketing background, she empathizes with professionals in less technical roles and is passionate about making technology approachable to people of various backgrounds and coding knowledge through user-friendly products, jargon-free communication and community building.
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Demetrios Brinkmann
Demetrios Brinkmann is one of the main organizers of the MLOps Community and currently resides in a small town outside Frankfurt, Germany. He is an avid traveler who taught English as a second language to see the world and learn about new cultures. Brinkmann fell into the Machine Learning Operations world, and since, has interviewed the leading names around MLOps, Data Science, and Machine Learning. Since diving into the nitty-gritty of ML Operations he felt a strong calling to explore the ethical issues surrounding AI/ML. He loves how communities tick and their inner workings so much so it has become one of his passions. When he is not conducting interviews you can find him making stone sackings with his daughter in the woods or playing the ukulele by the campfire.
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Mike Swam
1 Episode
Megan Sosey
1 Episode
Dylan Fox
Founder/CEO at AssemblyAI.
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Yury Selivanov
Co-founder & CEO of EdgeDB @edgedatabase • Python core developer • PSF fellow • async/await • asyncio • uvloop • asyncpg
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Chris Holdgraf
Executive Director 2i2c_org. Working on Project Jupyter + mybinder team. Open communities 🙌 open infrastructure 💻 open science 🧪. On Mastodon at @choldgraf@hachyderm.io.
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Preston Cothren
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Jonathan Hoffstadt
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Dino Viehland
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Antonio Andrade
Antonio is a MSc Software Engineer and BEng Electronic Engineer professional and intrapreneur with experience in the Oil & Gas energy sector. He has committed the last 15 years to Digital Transformation initiatives and Technology with the potential to decouple emissions and resources focused on optimisations and energy-efficiency.
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Nate Rush
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Aaron Diamond-Reivich
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Gui Talarico
Gui Talarico is a (Building) Architect turned Software Engineering living the Bay Area. In his prior Architecture career, Gui was a Building Information Specialist & Architectural Technologist, and worked on the intersection of software development, building data, and building-design processes. Beyond his professional career, Gui is an active contributor to open source projects and online communities related to architecture - see profile at (github.com/gtalarico/gtalarico)
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Bex Tuychiev
Bex is data science content creator from Uzbekistan. He is a top 10 writer on Medium in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science topics. He has written over 100 articles teaching hard data-related topics to thousands of aspiring learners. Bex is also a Kaggle Master, the only one from his country, and is on a fast-track to become the first-ever Kaggle Grandmaster from Central Asia. He is currently working on his new package, Streamlitbook, which will soon be published.
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Henry Schreiner
Henry Schreiner is a Computational Physicist / Research Software Engineer in High Energy Physics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in experimental high-energy physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Henry is currently funded by the IRIS-HEP project, developing tools for the next era of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He is an admin of Scikit-HEP, and also the lead web developer for IRIS-HEP and Scikit-HEP, including primary authorship on the Scikit-HEP developer pages and accompanying cookiecutter template. Henry is also a maintainer/core developer for pypa/build, scikit-build, cibuildwheel, pybind11, and plumbum for Python, and primary author of CLI11 for C++. He is also the author of a variety of CMake, GPU, and Python training courses and classes.
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Yetunde Dada
#kedro Product Manager at Quantum Black, a McKinsey company | #OxfordMBA 2017/2018 | Instagram: @yetudada | 🇿🇦
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Ivan Danov
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David Born
David Born is a computational biologist and software engineer focused on scalable solutions to biological data challenges. He is currently a Senior Scientist at Beam Therapeutics where he develops data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and computational biology tools. Before transitioning to computational biology, David earned a PhD in biophysics focused on structural biology and biochemistry.
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Tom Augspurger
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Rob Emanuele
Rob Emanuele is a geospatial architect at Microsoft where he works on applying geospatial technology to environmental sustainability use cases as part of the AI for Earth program. Previously he was Vice President of Research at Azavea, a geospatial software company and B Corporation focused on open source geospatial software. Rob is a member of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog project steering committee and was previously a Technical Fellow for the Radiant Earth Foundation supporting the advancement of the STAC ecosystem.
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Patrick Viafore
Pat Viafore is the author of Robust Python, a book centered on writing clean and maintainable code. He spends his days as a Senior Software Engineer at Canonical, building CI/CD pipelines and tooling for deploying Ubuntu images to public clouds. He has been working in Python for a better part of a decade, and is a Meetup organizer in his home-town.
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Leah Cole
Developer Programs Engineer at Google.
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Kaxil Naik
Apache Airflow Committer & PMC Member | Director of Airflow Engineering, & Founding team at Astronomer.io | OpenSource Advocate | Cricket Lover
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Jarek Potiuk
Independent Open-Source Contributor and Advisor, Committer and PMC member of Apache Airflow, Member of the Apache Software Foundation, Security Committee Member of the Apache Software Foundation. Organizer of community-focused events, speaker. Jarek is an Engineer with a broad experience in many subjects - Open-Source, Cloud, Mobile, Robotics, AI, Backend, Developer Experience, Security, but he also had a lot of non-engineering experience - building a Software House from scratch, being CTO, organizing big, international community events, technical sales support, pr and marketing advisory but also looking at legal aspects of security, licensing, branding and building open-source communities are all under his belt. With the experience in very small and very big companies and everything in-between, Jarek found his place in the Open Source world, where his internal individual-contributor drive can be used to the uttermost of the potential.
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Daniel Townsend
Dan is a full stack developer and tech lead, with a love for Python, and creating nice UI. He is based in the UK, and started his career after picking up a secondhand book on HTML, which sparked a lifelong interest in building digital products. He's often found tinkering with web sockets, Postgres, and asyncio.
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Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer. He also enjoys writing Python code in his spare time.
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Rod Senra
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Sanyam Bhutani
Sanyam Bhutani is the host of Chai Time Data Science & an ML Engineer/AI Content Creator at H2O.ai He is an active Kaggler Master, ranked in the Global Top 1% across 3 categories as well as an active AI blogger on the medium, Hackernoon with 1.5 Million+ Views overall. He has been recognized as hackernoon contributor of the year 2020 in ML and Tutorials and was previously a Top AI & SDC Writer on Medium. Chai Time Data Science Show is an interview series where Sanyam interviews his Data Science heroes about their journey. It has been streamed for 200,000+ times with over 125 episodes recorded with Top Kagglers, Researchers and Practitioners.
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Carson Gross
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Jack Simpson
Jack Simpson is a quantitative analyst at the Australian Energy Market Commission where he is fascinated by the complexity and immense data that can be found in the energy sector. Before joining the AEMC, Jack completed a PhD in computational biology and worked as a data scientist in management consulting.
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John Speed Meyers
John Speed Meyers is an engineer in IQT Labs and a researcher who focuses on software security, especially open source software supply chain security. He holds a PhD in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He’s ambivalent about computers. jmeyers@iqt.org
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Bentz Tozer
Bentz Tozer is a Vice President in In-Q-Tel’s Cyber Practice, where he identifies and works with startups with the potential for high impact on national security. In previous roles, he has performed security research and software development with a focus on IoT devices and embedded systems. He has a PhD in systems engineering from George Washington University. btozer@iqt.org
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Victor Schmidt
Polytechnique at UCL, PhD Mila Quebec, (Machine) Learning enthusiast, ex Etalab - AI vs Climate Change - thisclimatedoesnotexist.com
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Jonathan Wilson
Haverford College associate professor with tenure, and in the summer of 2018 my position was converted to be dedicated to the Environmental Studies Department. He chaired the Environmental Studies Department from 2019 to 2022. Enjoys field-based work, whether geological or botanical in nature, and try to spend summers near some combination of plants, rocks, and trout.
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Boris Feld
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Laura Beaufort
Laura Beaufort is the Technical Lead for the Federal Election Commission. At the FEC, she works to increase transparency in elections by making campaign finance data available at fec.gov and through the FEC API. Her favorite things to work on are application security, performance improvement, and fixing bugs. She also actively participates in the open source community, having contributed to several open source projects, including flask-sqlalchemy.
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Julien Danjou
Julien is an open-source software engineer for the last 20 years. He contributed to multiple free software projects, from Debian to OpenStack. During the day, he works as a Staff Engineer at Datadog in the Profiling team, where he built the Python profiler.
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Rob Richardson
Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.
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Patrik Hlobil
Pythonista with broader interest from IT to history.
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Eugene Yan
Eugene Yan works at the intersection of machine learning & product to build pragmatic, customer-facing ML systems. He's currently an Applied Scientist at Amazon. Previously, he led the data science teams at Lazada and uCare.ai. He writes & speaks about data science, data/ML systems, and career growth at eugeneyan.com and tweets at @eugeneyan.
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Peter McKee
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Min Ragan-Kelley
Min is a Senior Research Engineer and head of the department of Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis at Simula Research Lab in Oslo, Norway. Min has been a core member of the widely used open source project now known as Jupyter since 2006.
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Leon Sandøy
Just a regular dude with a big-ass beard. Father, open-source enthusiast, musician.
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John Reese
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Dr. Becky Smethurst
Dr. Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching how supermassive black holes affect galaxies. She gets overly enthusiastic about space on YouTube at http://youtube.com/drbecky
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Chip Huyen
Chip Huyen works to bring the best practices to machine learning production. Her experiences include Snorkel AI, Netflix, NVIDIA, Primer, and Stanford, where she taught TensorFlow for Deep Learning Research. She’s also the author of four bestselling Vietnamese books. She’s working on a book on Machine Learning Interviews.
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Joe Borg
Joe is a software engineer at Canonical, working on delivering Kubernetes to the masses with Python. Before moving into full time open source, Joe spent 7 years working in the Formula 1 industry where he tried his hardest to replace everything with Python.
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Silas Toms
Silas Toms is a geographer and geospatial developer from California. Over the last decade, Silas has become an expert in the use of Python programming for geospatial analysis, publishing two books on the use of ArcPy. Silas teaches classes on programming for GIS with BayGeo, and co-hosts The Mappyist Hour podcast.
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Sam Scott
CTO/Cofounder OSO 🐻.
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Graham Neray
Cofounder/CEO at OSO. Prev @MongoDB. Amateur boxer. Husband of Meghan Gill, dad of 3.
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John Patrick Dandison
Dev. I build for the cloud. Identity stuff Microsoft. Modern identity junkie. Find him on Mastodon at infosec.exchange/@jpda
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Christos Matskas
Principal Keynote Tech Lead @AWS | ex Microsoft | Cloud | Security | Programmer | Speaker | Triathlete. Find him on Mastodon at hachyderm.io/@christosmatskas
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Clark Petri
Born and raised in rural Northern California, Clark Petri is a data analyst, technical team leader, optimizer, and technology enthusiast. With experience as a senior Naval Officer working in the Pentagon performing analytics, buoyed by over fifteen years of military operations and leadership, he is a lateral thinker with a passionate drive for problem framing and solution implementation.
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Keith McCormick
Keith McCormick is an independent data miner, trainer, speaker, and author. Keith is skilled at explaining complex methods to new users or decision-makers at many levels of technical detail. He specializes in predictive models and segmentation analysis including classification trees, neural nets, general linear models, cluster analysis, and association rules.
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Jev Gamper
Decision Scientist at Vinted.
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David Armstrong
STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow at University of Warwick working on exoplanet detection, characterization and populations with the TESS mission data. Also study the habitability of known exoplanets, mixing exoplanet and Earth observations to track greenhouse gases, and the classification of eclipsing binaries and variable stars in large-scale surveys.
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Chris Mattmann
Chris Mattmann is the Division Manager for the Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Innovation Development Organization in the Information Technology and Solutions Directorate (ITSD) at NASA JPL. Dr. Mattmann is also JPL's first Principal Scientist in the area of Data Science.
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Attila Tóth
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Anthony Sottile
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Robert "Kane" Replogle
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Carolyn Stransky
Carolyn Stransky is a journalist and software developer based in Berlin. She is also a conference speaker and workshop organizer.
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Nick Winter
Nick is the CEO and cofounder of CodeCombat, a game for teaching kids to code in Python and JavaScript played by more than 20 million learners. He previously was CTO and cofounder of Skritter, the #1 app for foreigners learning to write Chinese characters; he now sits on Skritter's board. A graduate of Oberlin College with highest honors and a triple major in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, and East Asian Studies, Nick brings together his passions for technology, optimization, and language learning to teach the next generation how to be native speakers of code. Nick is also the author of The Motivation Hacker, a book about achieving extreme productivity.
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Conor Hoekstra
Conor is a Senior Library Software Engineer at NVIDIA working on the RAPIDS team. He has six years of professional C++ experience (and is on the ISO C++ Canadian National Body) and one year of professional Python experience. He is extremely passionate about programming languages, algorithms and beautiful code. He is the founder and organizer of the Programming Languages Virtual Meetup and he has a YouTube channel where he covers solutions to competitive programming problems.
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Vandy Liu
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Sayyeda Mussa
Program Manager, Visual Studio.
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Kevin Nguyen
Software Engineer at Microsoft.
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Andrea Mah
Software Engineer (Visual Studio Code) at Microsoft.
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Paul Ganssle
Paul is the maintainer of the dateutil package and also a maintainer of the setuptools project.
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Ravin Kumar
Ravin Kumar is a senior engineer that uses data and statistics to inform humans decision making from C Suite long term strategy to ground floor “in the moment” choices. Ravin is (likely) a big proponent of Bayesian statistics and is Core Contributor to PyMC3 and ArviZ. Both are Open Source projects that strive to make Bayesian methods accessible and easy to use and for anybody. Ravin also helps plan community conferences such as PyDataLA, and enjoys building people up as much as he enjoys building code.
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Philipp Rudiger
Philipp Rudiger is a Software Engineer at Anaconda, Inc. developing open-source and client-specific solutions for data management, visualization and analysis. He is the author of the open-source dashboarding and visualization libraries Panel, hvPlot and GeoViews and one of the core developers and maintainers of Bokeh and HoloViews. Before making the switch to software development he completed my Ph.D. and Masters in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh working on biologically inspired, deep and recurrent neural network models of the mammalian visual system.
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Nick Thapen
Founder Sourcery.ai - refactoring Python with AI.
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Brendan Maginnis
CEO at Sourcery.ai.
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Jacqueline Nolis
Dr. Jacqueline Nolis is a data science leader with over a decade of experience in data science consulting. For fun she likes to use machine learning for humor.
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Emily Robinson
Emily is currently working as a data science consultant, primarily as an expert witness on a trade secrets case. She's a coauthor of the book Build a Career in Data Science with Jacqueline Nolis, and the accompanying podcast.
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Andrew Clark
Andrew Clark is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of a machine learning assurance company called Monitaur. Monitaur solves a key problem that has been preventing wide-spread machine learning adoption: the lack of a holistic approach to machine learning risk management. Monitaur has created a risk management and regulator friendly ‘SIEM’ system that records all model predictions with an understandable description of why a transaction has occurred. Andrew received a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, an M.S. in Data Science from Southern Methodist University, and is a Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Reading. He also holds the Certified Analytics Professional, American Statistical Association Graduate Statistician, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certifications. An avid conference speaker, Andrew has appeared as a speaker at numerous conferences presenting on open source audit analytics, machine learning, and emerging technologies.
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Adrien Treuille
Dr. Treuille has been a Zoox VP, Google X project lead, and Computer Science faculty at Carnegie Mellon. He has won numerous scientific awards, including the MIT TR35. Adrien has been featured in the documentaries What Will the Future Be Like by PBS/NOVA, and Lo and Behold by Werner Herzog.
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Kaylea Haynes
Currently learning to juggle work/life with a 1 year old. Data Scientist in cybersecurity and mum to Douglas. Trying to also squeeze in some running. Find her on Mastodon at https://fosstodon.org/@KayleaHaynes
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Eslene Bikoumou
Doctor in Applied Maths, specializing in memory and spatial effects in foraging and games.
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Dr. Jennifer Stark
Data Engineer/Science Consultant, Associate at Equal Experts, Co-organiser for PyDataMCR, Neuroscience PhD. Find her on Mastodon at https://fosstodon.org/@_JAStark
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Jayson Phillips
Jayson J. Phillips is an engineering leader and instructor residing in Oakland, California. By day, he's the Director of Engineering for Bootcamp Academic Systems at Trilogy Education Services, a 2U Inc brand, leading teams that aspire to build the best experiences for bootcamp learning and instruction. In addition, he periodically teaches Full Stack Web Development or Data Visualization bootcamp courses via UC Berkeley and University of Denver. In his recreational time, he enjoys traveling, hiking, photography, nutritional coaching and continuing on the path to completing 50 Half Marathons in 50 states.
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Rodrigo Tobar
Currently helping astronomers to develop software in C++11, MPI, OpenMP and OpenCL, maintaining and further developing an archiving system in python 2.7/3.5+, and developing a prototype execution engine for the SKA project.
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Kevin Vinsen
Senior Research Fellow at ICAR.
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Tim Head
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Shea Newton
Shea Newton writes software from Portland, Oregon. Besides talking to cars, some of his favorite things include esolang interpreters, lit zines, flash fiction, grammars for generative poetry, and oxford commas. He’s currently working at ActiveState where they’ve built a platform that allows you to configure and build your own open source language runtime, for the operating system and architecture of your choosing.
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Martin Héroux
Martin Héroux is a neuroscientist who works at Neuroscience Research Australia with a passion for quality, reproducible research.
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Kate Olszewska
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Johan Stenberg
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Nathan Papapietro
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C.K. Sample III
Electronic musician, dad, artist and Chief Customer Officer, Hypergiant.
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Ryan Kubik
I make games, usually with JavaScript!
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Kevin Whinnery
Dad, husband, JavaScripter, assistant pig keeper. Head of Developer Experience at Retool. Former purveyor of fine text messages at Twilio.
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Chris Adams
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Dane Hillard
Author of Practices of the Python Pro 🐍📘 Lead web application developer at ITHAKA
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Brian Clark
Developer Advocate Snyksec | Prev Microsoft, Disney.Learn live with us at clarkio.live community.
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Fred Kingham
Fred Kingham is lead developer of UK-based software company Open Healthcare, which develops applications for a number of hospital teams around the country. A fan of both the UK National Health Service (NHS) and of open source, he’s one of the core developers of Opal, a web framework for building healthcare apps that deal with patient medical data. Fred and the OH team help out with NHS Hackdays, events that bring tech and medical professionals together to find innovative solutions to day-to-day problems.
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Max Sklar
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Sebastian Proost
After struggling to decide between studying biology and computer science, Sebastian ultimately started Biology which curbed into a Biotechnology degree. Never really able to let go of informatics he was able to get the best of both by pursuing a PhD in Bioinformatics at Ghent University (Belgium). Over the course of his PhD and several postdocs (University of Potsdam & Max-Planck Institute, Germany) he worked on a variety of topics ranging from the evolution of genome structure to predicting gene function. These topics always leveraged large datasets to gain new biological insights. He recently shifted towards microbiology and currently works as a senior postdoc in the group of Prof. Jeroen Raes in the (KULeuven – VIB, Belgium) were they study which bacteria and how many of each type are present in certain environments (e.g. soil, ocean water or the human gut). He develops software that makes complex datasets, where different bacteria are measured in thousands of samples, accessible through a user-friendly interface. This allows scientists and doctors to efficiently gain a better understanding of the roles these bacteria play in those environments.
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Ethan Swan
Ethan is a lead data scientist at 84.51°, where he has been teaching Python and Linux courses since 2016. He also teaches Python for Data Science at the University of Cincinnati. In his free time, he enjoys technology projects – many with Raspberry Pis – and running.
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Brad Boehmke
Brad Boehmke is a Director of Data science at 84.51° where his team develops and teaches R and Python programming to enable 84.51° data scientists to efficiently implement data science and machine learning processes, solutions, and tools. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati, author of the Hands-on Machine Learning with R and Data Wrangling with R books, creator of multiple public and private enterprise R packages, and developer of various data science educational content.
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Albert-Jan Nijburg
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Joseph Mancuso
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Ricardo Tellez
Ricardo Tellez is founder and CEO of The Construct, a company dedicated to teaching how to program robots with ROS and how to make developers transform their future becoming robotics developers. Ricardo has more than 7 years experience with ROS reason why he is a teacher of ROS for the Master Degree in Robotics at University of La Salle in Barcelona. Additionally, you can meet him every Tuesday at 18:00 CET at his free online ROS class at The Construct Youtube channel.
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Casey Kinsey
Founder & CEO at lofty.com.
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Cornelis van Lit
Cornelis van Lit is a scholar of medieval Islamic philosophy. He has studied and worked at universities around the world, such as McGill, Yale, and Freie Universitat Berlin. Having been into programming since a young age, he found himself drawn to incorporate computing technology in his work, with Python as a reliable ally. But, given that virtually no one had done so before him, many of the basic problems involved had to be thought through for the first time. After six year, this has culminated in a handbook on digital manuscript studies. Meanwhile, he founded the online magazine 'The Digital Orientalist' to provide a space for discussions on using computing technology in Islamic Studies and related fields. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a project on late-medieval discussions on the imagination at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
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Jonathan Pyle
Jonathan Pyle is a lawyer and computer programmer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By day, he works at Philadelphia Legal Assistance, a non-profit that provides free legal representation to low-income people in civil matters. In his spare time, he develops and maintains Docassemble, a free, open-source expert system platform based on Python.
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Elissa Shevinsky
Elissa Shevinsky is CEO at Faster Than Light, a dev tools company. She helped launch Geekcorps (acquired), Everyday Health (IPO) and Brave ($35M ICO.) Shevinsky is also the editor of the critically acclaimed book "Lean Out." She can be found on Twitter, at @ElissaBeth.
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Daniel Chen
Daniel is a Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech in the Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology program. His current research topic is in education, where he is aiming to bring data science skills to medical practitioners. He's also finishing up his summer internship at RStudo working on a library to grade student's code that gives meaningful feedback to why the solution is wrong.
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AJ Pryor
AJ is a data scientist, full stack developer, and Ph.D. physicist with expertise in high-performance computing and software engineering who focuses on driving business value through conception and strategic deployment of data-driven applications. He believes in all things testing, is always halfway through some sort of online course, and spends perhaps too much time slacking his coworkers about interesting new technologies or ideas. AJ currently serves the role of Principal Data Scientist at American Tire Distributors and lives near Charlotte, NC with his wife and (rapidly growing) family. In addition to data science and web development, he is interested in football (go Jackets!) as well as the guitar and piano.
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Paul V. Craven
Paul Craven is the author of "Program Arcade Games with Python and Pygame", an online and in-print resource for learning to program. He is the primary maintainer of the Arcade Python game library for 2D graphics. Paul is also a professor at Simpson College in Iowa.
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Bryan Van de Ven
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Nina Zakharenko
Nina loves teaching developers, and she has spoken at conferences around the world like PyCon Russia, EuroPython, and DjangoCon. In 2019, she gave the closing keynote at PyCon US, and co-organized Mentored Sprints for Diverse Beginners. She is currently based out of Portland, OR where I enjoy snowboarding, hiking, drinking scotch, and tinkering with hardware, LEDs, and wearable electronics.
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Francesca Lazzeri
Francesca Lazzeri, PhD is Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Microsoft on the Cloud Advocacy team and an expert in big data technology innovations and the applications of machine learning-based solutions to real-world problems. Her work on these issues covers a wide range of industries including energy, oil and gas, retail, aerospace, healthcare, and professional services. Francesca periodically teaches applied analytics and machine learning classes at universities in USA and Europe.
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David Holmes
David is software engineer born and raised in New York City. Before working at USDS, he was a software consultant/contractor for various tech startups in NYC.
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Asavari Tayal
Asavari is a Program/Product Manager for Microsoft Azure Functions & App Service. Leading language extensibility for Functions, she is responsible for driving net-new users to the platform by building support for open source languages such as Java and Python. She drives the runtime features, platform support and business strategy for each of these individual stacks and developer communities.
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Rong Lu
PM at Microsoft, working on Data Science tools for Python in Visual Studio Code and Azure. Love travel, pingpong, photography, and Chinese food. ☺️
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Katherine Kampf
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Dan Taylor
Dan is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio Azure Tools team at Microsoft, focusing on performance and diagnostics tools for Azure developers.
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Michael Droettboom
Michael Droettboom is a Data Engineer at Mozilla, using data to improve the web while respecting the privacy of its users. He has built software tools to support many other disciplines, including the computational humanities, astronomy and medicine. He is a former lead developer of matplotlib and the original author of airspeed velocity.
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Vanessa Angel
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Sergio Sanchez
data engineer. public policy wonk. Hip Hop head. tijuana, baja california, méxico -> san francisco bay area, ca, usa
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Scott Stoltzman
Data Scientist in Fort Collins, Colorado. Always looking for a fun project to work on and constantly dabbling with publicly available data.
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Kelly Schuster-Paredes
Co-Host of Teaching Python Podcast, Experienced Educator, Pythonista, Educational Technology Specialist, STEAM educator, and Curriculum Design
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Jason Pecor
Co-Founder, VPBD, and demonstration tinkerer at @AloriumTechnology. Fan of profile images that represent the fun side of our personalities.
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Dane Parks
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Christopher Ariza
Christopher Ariza is Head of Investment Systems, the core software engineering team at Research Affiliates, a global leader in investment strategies and research. He has developed tools in a variety of domains, including algorithmic music composition and computer-aided musicology. Prior to joining Research Affiliates, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at MIT, Assistant Editor at the Computer Music Journal, and Assistant Professor of Recording Arts and Music Technology at Towson University. He has a PhD and MA in music theory and composition from New York University, and a BA in music from Harvard University.
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Tsitsi Flora Munikwa
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Karly Sindy
Software Developer with a Molecular Biologist alter ego. Also love mountain biking or hanging out with my daughter, husband, and dog.
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Joy Dantong Ma
I code, write and speak on Artificial Intelligence.
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Peter Kazarinoff
Peter teaches Engineering at Portland Community College in Portland, OR. Teaching at a community college is his dream job. He is the author of the book Problem Solving with Python. Peter wants to reduce textbook costs for students with open education resources. He is working towards reducing software costs for students by incorporating open source software into Engineering courses. Peter lives with his wife and two young daughters in Portland.
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Bryan Helmig
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Adam Hood
I'm a software developer at JetBrains, working on Datalore. I'm fascinated by the wide world of machine learning and data science and their applications to various fields ranging from neuroscience to sabermetrics.
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Ronald Hayden
Ronald Hayden worked at NeXT/Apple for 25 years. He managed Developer Publications, then founded Software University and taught Python to thousands of people around the world. His specialty is teaching non-data scientists how to use Python to clean up and process messy spreadsheet data, and teaching experienced programmers how to be Pythonic.
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Adam Hopkins
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Colton Myers
Colton is the co-creator of HubbleStack and the primary developer. He is also a core contributor to SaltStack and was previously on the SaltStack core engineering team. He's a full time python developer for Adobe.
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Jason Fried
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Cristián Maureira-Fredes
Cristián has been a Python enthusiast for more than 10 years, and due to his academic background he has been using it in different topics like Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Data Science, and Astrophysics. Currently he is a Software Engineer at The Qt Company working on the Qt for Python project.
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Mariatta Wijaya
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Dmitry Filippov
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Hank Preston III
Hank is a long time technophile, and loves learning and helping others learn about technology in exciting ways. His experience in IT is wide and varied including web/database development and infrastructure engineering. After many years away from “code”, he fell back in love with algorithms and IDEs when he discovered Python and how much fun coding had become (goodbye Java!). Hank’s day job is as a Developer Evangelist and Advocate with Cisco DevNet where he gets to work in the land of network programmability and NetDevOps!
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Teresa Borcuch
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Giuseppe Cunsolo
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Brian Skinn
MIT ChemE PhD. Pythonista specializing in data analysis and general automation tool/library development. Dabbler in quantum chemistry.
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Rob Ward
Hot-air ballooning, tech and aviation geek. Private pilot (fixed-wing). Data Engineer.
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Jim Taysom
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Derrick Chambers
Research engineer for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's mining program. CDC (work) + personal projects.
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Arash Soheili
Technologist and entrepreneur. Currently working on making car buying and ownership better for consumers at joinyaa.com.
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Kay Hayen
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Adam Rule
Adam Rule is a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher and recent PhD graduate with the Design Lab at UC San Diego. His work explores how people use computational notebooks like Jupyter Notebook to analyze data and share their results.
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Corey Schafer
Corey graduated from Marshall University with a BS in Computer Science. He has mainly worked in the public sector. His job list includes: Tech Support at Marshall University, Launch Control Systems Intern at NASA Kennedy Space Center, GIS Front-End Developer at West Virginia University, and Software Engineer at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at The University of Colorado Boulder. Currently, he is working full-time teaching on YouTube. He mostly covers Python, but I have also covered Git, SQL, Development Environments, etc.
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Anthony Langsworth
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Stuart Farmer
The CEO, lead developer, and visionary behind Lamden. Stuart has been programming for as long as he could type, creating his own coding language at the age of twelve. After obtaining his degree in Human Computer Interaction from Ohio State University, Stuart went on to become the Chief Executive Officer of of the software company Logic Labs Ltd. Stuart has received various research awards related to his work in computer interaction. He previously ran his own business in which he built start-ups for companies seeking to turn tech ideas into practical business models. With Lamden, he now puts his business acumen and award-winning programming skills to the problems related to Blockchain enterprise adoption and interchain interaction.
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Justin Kiggins
Justin Kiggins is a Product Manager at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where he works with the Science Tools and Applications team, building open source data processing and visualization tools for computational biology and microscopy.
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Corinne Teeter
Experienced computational scientist with an employment history in the biotechnology, government, and engineering sectors. Skilled in Python, Modeling, Data Analysis and Machine Learning. Strong research professional with a high impact publication record and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Computational Neuroscience from University of California, San Diego.
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Lindsey Heagy
Lindsey Heagy is a PhD student in #geophysics at UBC, where she works on @simpegpy, @geoscixyz.
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Mark Mendez
Mark Mendez is a BIM Consulting professional. He is the Director of Product Development at EvolveLAB, based in Boulder, Colorado where he develops custom software solutions for the AEC industry. He’s an active moderator of the EvolveLAB Community Forum and enjoys answering questions there. Mark can be reached for questions and comments via email at: mark.mendez@evolvelab-inc.com or on LinkedIn.
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Daniel Roy Greenfeld
Co-Author Two Scoops of Django), open source coder, husband of @audreyr, former NASA coder.
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Joseph Nix
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Nicole Harris
Director of product UKG_FR. UX, UI, front-end dev and fundraising PyPI. ♥ design, coding, cooking & the outdoors.
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Ernest W. Durbin III
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Hannah Sim
Sukin (Hannah) Sim is a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. She received her B.A. in chemical physics from Wellesley College. Her research in Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik’s group focuses on developing and analyzing quantum algorithms (for chemistry applications) to implement on current and near-term quantum computers.
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Arfon Smith
Head of Data Science Mission Office @stsci. Ex GitHubber. Zooniverse co-founder. Editor-in-chief of The Journal of Open Source Software.
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Nick Coghlan
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Yenny Cheung
Originally from Hong Kong, Yenny moved to the US to study Computer Science at Swarthmore College. She was a KPCB engineering fellow during her college years. After graduation, Yenny moved to Hamburg and joined Yelp as a full-stack software engineer. Yenny is on the Biz National team, where she is scaling advertising tools and reporting for national businesses. She leads the Awesome Women in Engineering Group at Yelp in Germany. Outside of work, Yenny enjoys yelping for good food and painting.
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker
I moved to Seattle in 2010 to study for a Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Washington. After 5.5 years, I decided to move out of the field and into tech to teach programming and software development at Code Fellows, a Seattle-area coding school. Since that move, I've been able to have a hand in training over 100 new Python developers and 80+ other developers that have gone on to work in the fields of mobile app development, application security, and DevOps. I've also been able to work on a variety of projects, including an application to inform people of the consequences of their criminal convictions, a Facebook messenger bot that connects people to volunteer opportunities in their area, and a Slack bot that helps you play Dungeons and Dragons. I'm fiercely interested in good mentorship both as a mentee and a mentor of others, and am always looking for ways to grow personally and professionally.
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Bruce Eckel
Author of Thinking in Java, Thinking in C++, Atomic Kotlin, On Java 8, Atomic Scala and others. Co-podcaster of HappyPathProgramming.com.
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Dave Voutila
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Cam Sweeney
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Michela Paganini
Senior Research Scientist @DeepMind | #AI🤝#Science | Model Understanding Previously: @facebookAI | @Yale Physics PhD | @CERN | @BerkeleyLab | @UCBerkeley
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Michael Kagan
Physics + Machine Learning, @slaclab, @stanford.
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Matthew Feickert
Postdoc @UWMadison @datascience_uw working on #LHC #physics and data science with @ATLASexperiment @CERN and @IRIS_HEP. PhD @SMU. Previously @PhysicsIllinois.
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Ben Cane
Benjamin is a Staff Engineer at American Express, where he focuses on engineering high availability systems for the payment network. He actively blogs at Blog.Codeship.com, AmericanExpress.io and his personal site BenCane.com. Ben has also started several open source projects, such as Automatron.io and cfdns.
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James Stone
James Stone is a independent design systems engineering consultant and a top contributor to the Open Source ZURB Foundation CSS front-end framework. He is most well known for his videos on YouTube which have had over 300k views to date. He has written for UX Pin and ZURB University and is an Adjunct Professor at Penn State's School of Visual Art, where he teaches an online introduction to scripting course targeted at artists and designers. Interesting fact about the course: many CS, SE, and IST majors take it because they want to do something a bit more creative with their code.
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Troy Hunt
Troy Hunt is an Australian Microsoft Regional Director and also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Developer Security. He doesn't work for Microsoft, but they're kind enough to recognize my community contributions by way of their award programs which I've been an awardee of since 2011. He gets to interact with some fantastic people building their best products and then share what he knows about creating secure applications for the web with the broader community.
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Vincent Spruyt
Vincent has been Chief Scientist and Vice President of Sentiance since joining in 2014 after he finished his Ph.D. research on machine learning at Ghent University. He is responsible for the machine learning team at Sentiance, applying state-of-the-art academic research to real-life problems. He founded his first company at the age of 18 and his last in 2012. He gained several years of industry experience as a Network Security Consultant at BA, and as a Java Enterprise Software Architect at Toyota since September 2006.
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Damien Irving
Dr. Damien Irving is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate Science at CSIRO and a strong advocate for open and reproducible science. Possibly best well-known for his "Dr. Climate" blog on research best practice in the atmosphere and ocean sciences, Damien is the co-coordinator of Software Carpentry activities in Australia and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Open Research Software. He is also the global coordinator of the Research Bazaar, which is an annual, worldwide festival promoting the digital literacy emerging at the center of modern research.
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Ronald Maravanyika
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Pete Garcin
Pete Garcin is Developer Evangelist @ActiveState. Pete has over 15 years in software development in both web and games having shipped over 40 titles in roles ranging from Programmer to Audio Director to Executive Producer. He earned his undergraduate degree at University of Waterloo, and an MA in Communication from Carleton University in Ottawa. He’s passionate about engaging with communities and dedicated to enhancing developers’ experiences with ActiveState products.
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Timo Koola
Timo Koola is a CTO and Python developer at Skadi Oy. He spends his days with chatbots, natural language processing, and hacking together Python applications. You can follow him at @tkoola or follow his literary bots @UlyssesReader and @FinnegansReader
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Kurt Griffiths
Kurt is an eclectic, hands-on architect who believes software is for humans, not the other way around. Over the years, he's had the opportunity to work in a wide variety of roles in fields such as video game development, drivers, system utilities, online marketing, cloud services, and information security. Kurt sometimes still wonders whether his music professor would be disappointed in how he turned out.
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John Vrbanac
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David Barroso
Although my current title is Senior Software Developer I am a Network Engineer at heart that also happens to love Systems and basically anything you can manipulate into doing things for you without too much arguing (which immediately qualifies robots and dogs but disqualifies humans and cats. Although I also like cats :P) I am one of the cocreators of NAPALM and I believe in open-source. I take great pride into replacing proprietary software with open-source and cutting ties with vendors who are often slow to react and usually introduce on each release more problems than solutions. I also happen to blog every now on then about things like automation and open-source.
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Kelsey Hightower
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Tom Christie
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Alex Lavin
Alex studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, then pursued robotics in Carnegie Mellon's MS in Mechanical Engineering program, where he led a team to building a lunar rover. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer with Numenta, developing biologically-derived AI algorithms. In 2016, Alex was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for Science. In his free time, Alex enjoys running, yoga, live music, and reading sci-fi and theoretical physics books.
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Susan Tan
Susan is a software engineer at bepress (Berkeley Electronic Press) in Downtown Berkeley. She used to work at Rotten Tomatoes, then at Piston a cloud computing startup which got acquired by Cisco. Susan loves to drink warm cups of tea while coding. Software Engineer who turns tea into code. Loves art museums, ballet, architecture, and all things beautiful.
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Paulus Schoutsen
Paulus Schoutsen is the founder of Home Assistant, an open source home automation framework that has been taking the world by storm. It’s written in Python 3, is powered by asyncio and integrates over 740 devices and services.
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Yves Hilpisch
Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch is founder and managing partner of The Python Quants (tpq.io), a group focusing on the use of open source technologies for financial data science, algorithmic trading and computational finance. He is the author of the books * Python for Finance (O'Reilly, 2014), * Derivatives Analytics with Python (Wiley, 2015) and * Listed Volatility and Variance Derivatives (Wiley, 2017). Yves lectures on computational finance at the CQF Program (http://cqf.com), on data science at htw saar University of Applied Sciences (htwsaar.de) and is the director of the first online training program leading to a Python for Algorithmic Trading University Certificate (awarded by htw saar). Yves has written the financial analytics library DX Analytics (dx-analytics.com) and organizes meetups and conferences about Python for quantitative finance in Frankfurt, London and New York. He has given keynote speeches at technology conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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Ryan Scott Brown
Ryan works at Ansible on cloud modules and the Ansible-Container project, and has spent years working on automation tooling and cloud-native applications. He also writes about serverless technologies at serverlesscode.com with a focus on mixing existing and legacy applications with the new slew of as-a-Service offerings available to developers today.
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Evan Hubinger
Evan Hubinger is an undergraduate mathematics and computer science major at Harvey Mudd College with three summers of professional Python software engineering experience at Yelp and Ripple. Evan is the creator and lead developer of Coconut, an open-source functional programming language that compiles to Python.
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Hidden Genius Crew
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Suresh Srinivas
Senior Principal Engineer, Intel.
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Sergey Maidanov
Software Engineering Manager at Intel.
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Arik Fraimovich
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Rick Copeland
Rick Copeland is the Principal Consultant of Arborian Consulting, which provides Python and MongoDB-focused consulting, training, and custom development services. Rick has been using Python since 2005, MongoDB since 2009, and has spoken at various user groups and conferences on both topics. He is a member of the Python Software Foundation and the Masters of MongoDB. Previously, Rick was a software engineer with SourceForge, where he helped reinvent and open-source the SourceForge platform as the Allura project.
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Tony DiCola
Tony is an engineer for Adafruit Industries and writes Python code to support the educational electronics that Adafruit creates for artists, engineers, makers, and hobbyists.
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Jim Fulton
Jim is the creator of Zope (the first open source application server) and ZODB, a pure-Python object database. Jim now works on NewtDB, which combines the ease of use of ZODB’s object with PostgreSQL’s JSONB to provide a hybrid object-oriented and document-oriented database. He also created and maintains the Buildout development and deployment tool. Jim has been a Python contributor and leader since 1994.
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Owen Campbell
Owen is a well-established Freelance Software Engineer & Consultant (MIET & CEng) with 30+ years’ experience. He is UK based with clients around the world - of all sizes and in a wide variety of sectors, both public and private. And he's a Python enthusiast, one of the PyCon UK organisers and a founding trustee of the UK Python Association.
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Marc Harper
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Anna Herlihy
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Dougal Matthews
Scottish Pythonista. Skier. Husband. Speaker. Python Glasgow organiser. OpenStack hacker at Red Hat
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Don Jayamanne
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Martijn Faassen
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Andrew Godwin
Andrew is a member of the Django core team, a Senior Software Engineer at Eventbrite, and spends far too much of his day worrying about software architecture. In the past he's worked on Django's migrations framework and South, helped scale websites to the hundreds of millions of users, and tied a snow machine up to the Internet. When he's not working, you might find him piloting small planes, visiting remote cabins in the mountains, practising archery, or working on games.
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Ian Dennis Miller
Ian is a scientist and entrepreneur currently based in Toronto. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto studying memes, social networks, and social simulation. His latest work, pplapi (People A-P-I), is one of 2017's hottest AI research projects trending on Product Hunt and Hacker News. Ian builds most of his projects, including pplapi, with Python and Flask-Diamond.
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Dylan Trotter
Dylan Trotter is a software engineer at YouTube. For the past couple of years he's been the technical lead for the application server infrastructure team, helping to make sure that YouTube continues to scale. Previously he was the technical lead of the channels team. Before joining YouTube, Dylan worked in the visual effects industry where he worked on tools to help digital artists automate their workflows. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.
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Phil Elson
Proud parent of conda-forge, cartopy, Iris and 2 real-world kids. Former Au Pair of matplotlib. Working on accelerator controls at CERN. On Mastodon at @pelson@mastodon.social
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Michael Sarahan
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Kale Franz
Principal Engineer • Anaconda, Inc.
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Jonah Duckles
Jonah Duckles is a data science professional with decades of experience in developing computational workflows to solve scientific problems. He catalyzes research by enabling scientific teams to tackle challenging problems through more effective workflows and interdisciplinary collaboration. He specializes in open source tools, particularly geospatial analysis, databases, and distributed system design. He is an active instructor and contributor to Software Carpentry, and teaches workshops several times a year.
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DJ Patil
DJ Patil is the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist in the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Mark Lavin
Dad, runner/triathlete and Python developer.
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Julia Solórzano
Julia Solórzano is a Security Experience Supervisor based in Durham, North Carolina. She leads security, user experience and engineering teams, and coach people to help them reach their full potential and create amazing things. Her most recent work includes Login.gov, the Department of Veterans Affairs API Platform, Zapier Visual Identity and the U.S. Web Design System.
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Alexey Malashkevich
Alexey has more than 15 years of IT industry experience. Author of PonyORM. Prior to founding PonyORM, Alexey was a Principal Engineer at a New York-based financial company.
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Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters is a community moderator and prolific Python expert on Stack Overflow. He works at Facebook, where he helps keep source control systems in working order.
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Erik Rose
Erik makes static analysis, search, and pattern-finding software at Mozilla, venting a byproduct of eclectic Python libraries. Skeletons in his closet include the self-bootstrapping mechanism for Let's Encrypt, the hash-verification functionality in pip, and a book about Plone. He's a frequent speaker and keynoter at various PyCons but is really just using the travel as an opportunity to find the world's best root beer.
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Paul Logston
Paul Logston is part of the team at 15Five and teaches at Columbia. Paul is also an avid member of Big Apple Py (aka. the New York City based Python user groups).
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Aditya Bhargava
Adit is the author of Grokking Algorithms. He has also taught the Introduction to Python class at Noisebridge. He blogs at adit.io.
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Jake VanderPlas
Jake VanderPlas is a Senior Data Science Fellow at University of Washington’s eScience institute. His background is in Astronomy, and apart from his own research and writing, he spends much of his time developing, maintaining, and training users of the open software tools that are increasingly important to researchers in today’s data-centric world.
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Markus Siemens
Markus Siemens is a programmer and student of Electrical Engineering from Hannover, Germany. When he’s not studying, he enjoys spending time programming in Python and Rust (amongst other languages).
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Joseph Cherlin
Kingbee (aka Joseph) is a game programmer living in Bellevue, WA. He likes programming, art, music, gaming, and working.
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Caleb Hattingh
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Anna Schneider
Anna Schneider, PhD is co-founder and CTO at WattTime, a nonprofit that fights climate change with Python by connecting real-time power grid data to the Internet of Things. She's spoken at DjangoCon about Django for IoT, at Pyladies about the Unconscious Bias Project, and at science conferences about the biophysics of photosynthesis.
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Alexander Lyabah
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Alex Earl
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David Crook
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Rafael Caricio
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Lauri Apple
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John Sonmez
John Sonmez is the founder of Simple Programmer and author of “Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual.” He created Simple Programmer with the goal of making the complex simple. As a software developer, John often found that people tend to have a way of making things appear more complex than they really are. He also discovered that often the simple solutions were the best ones - although not always the easiest to derive. He originally started Simple Programmer in 2009 as a personal blog to distill what he was learning into simple, easily understandable content.
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Josh Whelchel
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Chris Patti
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David MacIver
David is the primary author of Hypothesis, a property-based testing system for Python. He consults on software quality and testing, and offer a variety of training courses and workshops, especially centred around the use of Hypothesis. He's also into various other things. By training he's a mathematician, but my work these days is as a software developer. He have a tendency to rant entertainingly, a fondness for quality and an annoying tendency to tell you why you’re doing it wrong and you should do it my way instead.
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Mike Müller
Mike Müller has been using Python as his primary programming language since 1999. He is a Python trainer and the CEO at Python Academy (www.python-academy.com). He teaches a wide variety of Python topics including "Introduction to Python", "Python for Scientists and Engineers", "Advanced Python" as well as "Optimization and Extensions of Python Programs". He is the chairman of the Python Software Verband e.V., a PSF Fellow, a PSF community service award holder, and a User Group co-founder. He chaired EuroSciPy 2008 and 2009, PyCon DE 2011 and 2012 as well as EuroPython 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
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Slava Akhmechet
Slava Akhmechet is the founder of RethinkDB, a database company dedicated to helping developers build realtime web applications. Prior to RethinkDB he was a systems engineer in the financial industry, working on scaling custom database systems. Slava is a frequent speaker and a blogger. He blogs about his interests in open source, developer tools, building delightful user experiences, and distributed systems on defmacro.org. He is currently on leave from a Ph.D. program in Computational Neuroscience at Stony Brook University.
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Austin Bingham
Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments, at Applied Research Labs developing sonar systems, and at several telecommunications companies. He is an experienced presenter and teacher, and is an active member of the open source community. He’s the founder of Stavanger Software Developers, a social software group in Stavanger. Austin holds a MSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Scott Reed
Scott is an independent software consultant and an instructor for DevelopMentor, as well as the father of two girls.
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Ike Ellis
GM for Data & AI Practice at Solliance. Think a lot about Azure Synapse, Power BI, ADF, ADLS, Databricks, DAX, CosmosDB, ML, Azure SQL DB MI, & Hyperscale
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Brad Cunningham
Independent Software Consultant / Microsoft C# MVP Alumni
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Pete Fein
Pete Fein has written 95% of his code in Python for the last 15 years. He's a freelance developer and big data architect and author of several open source libraries. From 2010 to 2014, he was an Internet activist who helped defend free speech online and around the world. Pete lives in Pittsburgh where he coordinates a pedestrian activism group and battles wild grape vines. Learn more at https://wearpants.org.
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Braxton McKee
Braxton is the technical lead and founder of Ufora, a software company that has built an adaptively distributed, implicitly parallel runtime for Python programs. Before founding Ufora with backing from Two Sigma Ventures and others, Braxton led the ten-person MBS/ABS Credit Modeling team at Ellington Management Group, a multi-billion dollar mortgage hedge fund. He holds a BS (Mathematics), MS (Mathematics), and M.B.A. from Yale University.
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Mark Summerfield
Mark Summerfield has been programming in Python since 1999. Mark is a computer science graduate who has worked as a software developer, technical writer, and manager. He started his own busines, Qtrac Ltd., in 2006, where he still works today. He is the author of Python in Practice, Programming in Python 3, and Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt, as well as some books on programming Qt with C++. Over the years, Mark has given many commercial training courses in Python and Qt. Nowadays, Mark earns his living on the basis of his desktop software products -- DiffPDF for comparing PDF files, and XindeX for book indexers -- both of which are GUI applications written in Python.
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Joel Grus
Joel Grus is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the author of *Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python*. Previously he worked as a software engineer at Google and as a data scientist at a variety of startups. He lives in Seattle, can be found on Twitter at @joelgrus, and blogs sporadically at joelgrus.com.
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Kate Heddleston
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer from San Francisco who builds web applications using python and flask. She has a Masters in CS from Stanford and studied Human-Computer Interaction for her undergraduate degree. She enjoys using open source tools to build web applications and especially likes building portions of the product that interface with the user. You can find everything you never wanted to know about her here: kateheddleston.com/about
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Kristinn Sigurbergsson
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Patrick Hayes
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Pablo Hoffman
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Just van Rossum
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Robert Blau
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Min and Matthias
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Ron Cohen
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Leah Culver
Leah Culver is a iOS and Python developer and at Dropbox where she works on the Paper team. She's a former founder of Grove, Convore, and Pownce. She is also an author of both the OAuth and oEmbed API specifications.
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Shawn Milochik
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Lorena Mesa
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Greg Langston
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Adylzhan Khashtamov
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Matt Yancey
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Justin Beall
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Jonathan Sundqvist
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Jess Unrein
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Helio Correia
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Florian Motlik
Flo is the Co-Founder and CTO of Codeship, a Continuous Delivery Service. While studying and working at the Technical University of Vienna he stumbled into running test infrastructure for other teams and hasn't stopped since. He sometimes blogs on the codeship blog (blog.codeship.com) or on his personal blog (flomotlik.me). You can also find him on twitter (https://twitter.com/flomotlik).
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Justin Seitz
A respected cyber security expert who has trained and consulted with Fortune 500s, law enforcement agencies, and governments around the world. Author of two Python books that were translated into 7 languages, I have helped to teach tens of thousands of people how to write code to automate computer hacking and OSINT tasks. In October 2014, I presented a unique method for tracking ISIS supporters on Twitter and I hope I can share some OSINT secrets with you too.
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Dmitry Trofimov
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Travis Oliphant
Travis has a Ph.D. from the Mayo Clinic and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University. Since 1997, he has worked extensively with Python for numerical and scientific programming, most notably as the primary developer of the NumPy package, and as a founding contributor of the SciPy package. He is also the author of the definitive Guide to NumPy. As CEO of Continuum Analytics, Travis engages customers in all industries, develops business strategy, and helps guide technical direction of the company. He actively contributes to software development and engages with the wider open source community in the Python ecosystem. He has served as a director of the Python Software Foundation and as a director of NumFOCUS.
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Flavio Percoco
Flavio Percoco is a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he spend his days working on OpenStack. In his spare time he speaks at conferences, contributes to Rust, plays with MongoDB, smokes his coffee and drinks his pipe.
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Ryan Kelly
Ryan is a software developer based near Melbourne, Australia. Most of his days are spent coding in Python and JavaScript, commercially as an engineer at Mozilla as well as for a variety of open-source projects. He also maintains a strong interest in logic programming, mainly as a result of his doctoral thesis.
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Alexandre Gramfort
Alexandre Gramfort is currently an assistant professor at Telecom ParisTech and scientific consultant for the CEA Neurospin brain imaging center. His work is on statistical machine learning, signal and image processing, optimization, scientific computing and software engineering with primary applications in brain functional imaging (MEG, EEG, fMRI). Before joining Telecom ParisTech, he worked at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Harvard in Boston. He is also an active member of the Center for Data Science at Universite Paris-Saclay.
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Jessica McKellar
Jessica McKellaris a startup founder, software engineer, and open source developer living in San Francisco, California. She enjoys the Internet, networking, low-level systems engineering, relational databases, tinkering on electronics projects, and contributing to and helping other people contribute to open source software.
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Kyle Cranmer
Kyle Cranmer is an American physicist and a professor at New York University at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics and Affiliated Faculty member at NYU's Center for Data Science. He is an experimental particle physicist working, primarily, on the Large Hadron Collider, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Cranmer popularized a collaborative statistical modeling approach and developed statistical methodology, which was used extensively for the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in July, 2012.
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Davis Silverman
Davis Silverman is currently a student at the University of Maryland, working part time at The HumanGeo Group. He writes mostly Python, with an emphasis on performant, pythonic code.
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Laura Blankenship
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Eli Ribble
Eli Ribble has been hacking since he was little and discovered BASIC, Nethack and debuggers. He's enchanted by magic as implemented via technology and holds a BSc in Computer Engineering and MSc in CS from the University of Utah. He's developed driving simulator engines, mobile device management on windows CE, websites and various cloud streaming applications. Recently he's been building 3D printing technology in the cloud to help start the digital manufacturing age as the CTO of Authentise. He's been doing professional Python development for 7 years.
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Maciej Fijalkowski
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Brad Miller
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Andreas Dewes
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Lynn Root
An insomniac software engineer for Spotify, founder of the San Francisco Chapter of PyLadies, board member of the Python Software Foundation, and member of the Django Software Foundation. I have a business degree in finance and economics, but fell in love with programming in 2011. More on my journey about how I became a software engineer can be found in this post. I like to speak. A lot. I particularly talk on the Python community, as well as the technical work that I’ve done. Email me if you would like to make my talks list longer.
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Albert Sheu
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Armin Ronacher
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Adrian Rosebrock
Adrian Rosebrock is an author and blogger at PyImageSearch.com. He has a PhD in computer science with a focus in computer vision and machine learning and has been studying computer vision his entire adult life. He has consulted for the National Cancer Institute to develop methods to predict breast cancer risks using breast histology images and authored a book, Practical Python and OpenCV, on utilizing Python and OpenCV to build real-world computer vision applications.
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Harry Percival
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Patrick Chanezon
Patrick Chanezon is member of technical staff at Docker Inc. He helps to build Docker, an open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins. Software developer and storyteller, he spent 10 years building platforms at Netscape & Sun, then 10 years evangelizing platforms at Google, VMware & Microsoft. His main professional interest is in building and kickstarting the network effect for these wondrous two-sided markets called Platforms. He has worked on platforms for Portals, Ads, Commerce, Social, Web, Distributed Apps, and Cloud.
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Dr. James Curran
James Curran is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Sydney, and co-founder of Grok Learning (which you can find at groklearning.com). James has been teaching computer science to students and teachers for over a decade. In 2010, he was named one of Sydney Magazine’s top 100 influential people for his work in computer science education. James is an expert in high school IT education and is currently a Digital Technologies writer for the Australian Curriculum. Follow him on twitter where he's @DrJamesCurran.
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Dirk Thomas
Dirk joined the ROS project at Willow Garage before the "Fuerte" release and is maintaining the client libraries including "rospy" since then. After focusing on the C++ world during his studies he started diving into Python when working on a hybrid C++ / Python graphical user interface. Nowadays he favors using Python over C++ whenever possible due to its expressiveness, easy of writing and richness of available libraries.
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Chris McDonough
Chris McDonough is the primary author of the Pyramid web framework and the Supervisor process manager. He been a member of the Python community since 1999. He is a principal of Agendaless Consulting.
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Nicola Iarocci
Nicola is a passionate Python and C# open source hacker based in Ravenna, Italy. Back in 1991 he co-founded CIR2000, a small company focusing on delivering accounting software solutions for the small businesses. He is the creator and maintainer of a few open source projects and a conference speaker (on a sabbatical). When he is not hacking on code or spending time with his three kids, he is usually busy running, swimming, hiking or reading a good old paper book.
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