The Team

Nina is a Software Engineer with a passion for speaking and teaching, and over a decade of experience writing software for companies like Reddit, Meetup, and HBO. She currently focus on Python at Microsoft on the Cloud Developer Advocacy team.

In her spare time, she enjoys snowboarding, hiking, and tinkering with wearable electronics from her home base in Portland, OR.

Seb is an organizer of the Vancouver Python and Django groups, and a co-organizer of Vancouver Python Day. Seb has been a Vancouverite for almost three years now and loves it here. He is part of the local Python community and also loves the outdoor scene.

Britt is a Release Engineer at CircleCI living in Portland. He has spent most of his career focusing on infrastructure automation and uses Python daily in his life. In his free time he enjoys cycling, board games, and cooking.

Tania is a software engineer based in Manchester, UK. She's obsessed with all things data and automation - especially if they are combined! She is also a massive open source advocate and serial community builder.

Ashia is a senior Python developer, an organizer of PyCon CA & EdmontonPy, and the director of Dev Edmonton Society

Madison is a data engineer out of Seattle and an avid Python user. She currently works at Ookla (Speedtest.net), and has worked at and with the Allen Institute for Cell Science and the Broad Institute. In her spare time she can be found baking, building digital tools to help those battling oppression, contributing to open source, petting her cats, or playing video games.

Esti is a PyLadies PDX event organizer and former PyCascades chair. She works as a software engineer for a nonprofit that is trying to save the world.

Eric is co-founder of Read the Docs and Write the Docs, a director of the Python Software Foundation, and a proud member of the Portland Python community.

Stargirl is a Python Software Foundation Fellow, a creator of Python-powered synthesizers, and an advocate for open source software and hardware.