Russell has been a core developer on the Django project since January 2006. He is an active participant on the Django Users and Django Developers mailing lists, and has been a mentor in the Google Summer of Code since 2008. He is also President of the Django Software Foundation, and co-founder of TradesCloud.com. He lives with his wife, son, daughter, and two cats in Perth, Western Australia.
I'm one of the team at Heroku, currently working on the Heroku Postgres team. At Heroku I've launched our Python and Django support, worked to improve the broader platform, and now guide the product on the Heroku Postgres offering.
Andrew is a Python programmer, Django core developer and the author of South, the Django migrations framework, and has been programming, maintaining and herding machines for over a decade. When he's not sitting in front of a computer screen, he enjoys flying planes, archery, and cheese.
Lynn Root is an engineer for Red Hat on the freeIPA team, known for breaking VMs & OpenShift, and being loud about it. She is the founder & leader of PyLadies San Francisco, and the de facto missionary for the PyLadies word. Lastly, she has an unhealthy obsession for coffee, twitter, and socializing.
Kenneth Reitz is the product owner of Python at Heroku and a member of the Python Software Foundation. He embraces minimalism, elegant architecture, and simple interfaces. Kenneth is well known for his many open source projects, specifically Requests.
Rob Spectre is a punk rock technolologist having a barrel of monkeys on the Internet. Doing just about anything for a good laugh, Rob runs developer evangelism for Twilio and is an ardent supporter of open source software and creative commons art, the startup scene in New York, and every professional sports club from Boston. Having previously served in network and software engineering roles for SugarCRM and Boxee, he is a growth startup veteran coming up on his first decade in early stage tech. In addition to writing on Brookyn Hacker, Rob runs a number of exploits into Internet ridiculousness, including the heartwarming documentary service how i knew you were the one, the robotic telephonic joke machine Laugh-o-Tron, and the Nobel Prize-losing Chrome Extension Jeter Filter. Living and working in Brooklyn, Rob loves laughing, writing and failing to act his age by staying out of the most pit.
Steve Holden is known throughout the Python and Django worlds as a stimulating speaker with a broad knowledge of computing generally and Python in particular. Steve has been on the board of the Python Software Foundation since 2004, and served four years as the Foundation's chairman. His latest venture, The Open Bastion, produces technical events and conferences including DjangoCon US, ApacheCon US, Cloudstack Collaboration Conference and ApacheCon NA.
I'm a freelance hacker and Python aficionado, and I've been using Django since 0.96. In my work time I like to criticise the software I use, and in my free time I like to fix it. When I'm not in front of a computer, I'm probably in a kitchen.
It was once said about Zed that he, "Is as famous as a programmer can get without being a billionaire." He has written many open source projects that companies and people use, sometimes without even knowing they're using it. His "Learn The Hard Way" series has been read by millions of people all over the world even though it's self-published. He is a dynamic entertaining speaker who's sure to make you think and laugh at the same time
Peter is a freelance programmer, working mostly with Python, and based near Cambridge in the UK. He loves writing software that makes people's lives easier. When not thrashing away in front of a computer he's likely to be found up a mountain, in a concert hall, or at a cricket match.
Meet Swift, developer evangelist at-large for SendGrid and mad scientist hacker. As a lifelong developer himself, Swift has made it his personal mission to enable developers by helping them get the tools and resources they need to make awesome, creative stuff. Swift is also one of the founders of Hacker League, the platform for hackathons, a former engineer at Crowdtap, and an alumni of Rutgers University.
Przemek used to be a freelance developer and a Warsaw University of Technology student before he co-founded SUNSCRAPERS - a Warsaw based software company. Motivated by true passion he co-organizes PyWaw meetings for a local Python community in Warsaw. You may also meet him randomly somewhere in Europe during one of his hitchhiking trips.
Marc is an Oxford based engineer, who loves APIs, testing, and Django. He works at Incuna, building apps for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. He also helped to create ccbv.co.uk, a class based views documentation tool. When he isn't on the archery range, he likes to fix bugs and write docs on the libraries he uses.
I'm a Python geek and I work as a software architect at Paylogic, a boldly growing ticketing platform in the Netherlands. I come from Catalonia, a nation that (like HTTP) does not have a state. Maybe this is what made a developer of me. As a child I started with dBase III and x86 assembler, and after having spent many years writing Java for banks and PHP payment processors for the porn industry I moved North and switched to the challenging fun of Python and event peak sales. When I'm not coding or designing software I'm biking around on my recumbent bike or desecrating old master's works on my piano.
Christophe has been working with PostgreSQL since 1997, and Django since 2007. He consults on PostgreSQL, Django and iOS development through PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.
Andy is a developer at Mozilla, where he works on Django sites. He's been doing Django and Python for quite a while and likes talking for ages about how awesome they are. Before Django, Andy worked on Plone and wrote a book about it, but thats not as cool anymore. Conversations normally revolve around curling, skiing, maple syrup, igloos and other great things from Canada. But not ice hockey.
Aymeric is a software engineer. He leads the development of the information systems for Autolib', a self-service electric car sharing service in Paris.
He's also a Django core developer. His contributions include time zone aware handling of dates and times and support for Python 3.
When he isn't writing or shipping code, he loves learning, teaching and sharing knowledge.
Steven works at Potato in London. His favourite way to build web apps is using Django on Google App Engine. When he isn't hacking Python, he's likely to be found on a pair of skis or making music.
Marc works as backend developer for allink, a brand and web agency located in Zurich. He is finishing his part time studies in computer science this summer and is constantly trying to push the limits of Django. In his spare time he likes to fly all sorts of remote controlled gadgets.
Jérémie is a frontend developer for the Zurich based brand and web agency allink. While studying computer science part time, he is happy to have dropped PHP years ago. Whenever he has some time left, he enjoys playing soccer or flying quadcopters.
Juergen felt in love with Python and Django about 4 years ago. He likes to crunch data and build interesting web applications. Lately, he started at reliatec.de to do exactly that with Django and develop reliable web based health systems.
Marek fell in love with Django back in 2007, when he dumped PHP and wrote WolneLektury.pl using the web framework. Shortly after he joined SetJam and lived through three acquisitions (Motorola Mobility, Google and then Arris). Today Marek maintains a distributed application written over 3 years in Python/Django, coorganizes Warsaw programmer meetups (Djangobeer) and teaches women how to program at Django Carrots. When not in front of the computer, he is probably running.
Lennart Regebro created his first website in 1994, and has been working full time with open source web development since 2001. Since 2007 he is an independent contractor.
Lennart is available for any kind of Python work, but is mostly developing intranet CMS applications or websites for small and medium-sized companies using Plone and Django.
His book "Porting to Python 3" is available online and published with a Creative Commons license.
Jacob Burch has created websites since he was 12 years old. After spending his high school years as co-Editor in Chief of his high schook's website, he decided to finish his college studies and pursue the highly lucrative major of American Literature at UCLA. After graduating, Jacob decided the paparazzi-laden world of fame and fortune found in literative criticism was too much for him, so he returned to his humble programming roots as an software engineer at Mahalo.com. After serving time as Director of Technology and CTO at Mahalo, Jacob joined Revolution Systems as an Engineer in 2011. He blogs with random frequency at http://blog.jacobburch.com
Anna works as a software engineer at 10Clouds. She is a devoted Linux enthusiast and has a black belt in git.
Apart from code stuff she tries to find the best algorithm for muffins distribution in hunger-driven environment with resource overcommitment.
Serial entrepreneur, Twisted hacker, infosec nut, PSF member, evil IRC overlord on Freenode.
I've been programming for over 10 years in various languages. Python is by far my favorite language. I have an unhealthy obsession towards performance tuning and optimization.
I've given talks at DjangoCon, Utah Open Source Conference, PyCon and local user groups. I love sharing the cool stuff I learn.
I work on the Python instrumentation team at NewRelic where we concoct creative ways to find performance bottlenecks in Python webapps.
Brandon is happy to be returning to Poland, where he was a speaker at PyCon PL 2011. He started using Python in 1997 or 1998 (the exact year has been lost to history) and for 15 years has maintained the PyEphem library for amateur astronomers. He trains new Python programmers professionally and also consults on Python software projects such as the New England Wildflower Society's new Go Botany web site, which runs on Django. Brandon and his wife Jackie are living in small-town Ohio while she finishes writing her dissertation, where he enjoys being able to walk or bicycle everywhere, using the car only when it is time to drive to the airport and fly to a Python conference.
Daniel Greenfeld is a developer working mostly with Python, Django, and JavaScript. He's the co-author of Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.5. He is a principal at Cartwheel Web, a firm specializing in Python and Django applications.
Daniel first heard about Python around 1999 when the Zope Corporation contacted him about possible employment. The commute was too far, so he went for a Java position instead. After half a decade of Java work he was ready to quit programming, but was re-introduced to Python in 2005 while at NASA headquarters. By 2006 he was working full-time with Python, and in 2009 he started to work with Django. He met his fiancée, Audrey Roy, during a Django tutorial at PyCon 2010. In 2013 he was invited to speak at Django Circus.
Daniel believes that Python and Django have been very good for him, and is doing everything possible to pay it forward.
Honza is a Python programmer and Django core developer – since he is scared of the bright and shiny world of browsers, designers, and users he prefers to stay buried deep in the infrastructure code and just provides others with tools to do the actual site-building.
Since 2008 Honza has been building content web sites for fun and profit. During this time he discovered Elasticsearch which lead to him joining the company behind it in 2013 to work on the Python drivers.
Assistant professor at Department of Computer Science AGH University of Science and Technology, formerly associated with Jagiellonian University. Specializing in natural language processing, data mining and online crawling fields. Great enthusiast of python language and django framework.
