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Renato Candido

Renato Candido

Researcher in digital signal processing, telecommunications and machine learning. {free, libre, open source} {software, hardware, culture, science} enthusiast.

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Jon Fincher

Jon Fincher

Jon taught Python and Java in two high schools in Washington State. Previously, he was a Program Manager at Microsoft.

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James Uejio

James Uejio

James is an avid Pythonista and creates video tutorials for Real Python. He is a web developer at Wish and also produces lo-fi hip hop and plays jazz guitar.

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Ahmed Bouchefra

Ahmed Bouchefra

Ahmed is a developer and software engineer with 4+ years of experience on building web, mobile and desktop applications. He's also an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python.

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Cameron MacLeod

Cameron MacLeod

Cameron is a product manager based in London who writes both Python and English in his spare time.

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Charles de Villiers

Charles de Villiers

Charles teaches Physics and Math. When he isn't teaching or coding, he spends way too much time playing online chess.

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Déborah Mesquita

Deborah Mesquita

Déborah is a data scientist who loves to explain concepts in comprehensive ways.

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Paul Mealus

Paul Mealus

Paul studies ways to leverage technology to empower business and make life better. Paul has a life goal to become a CIO and more importantly, pet every dog in the world.

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Jaya Zhané

Jaya Powell

Jaya is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python. She's a Master's student at Georgia Tech and is interested in data science, AI, machine learning and natural language processing.

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Joanna Jablonski

Joanna Jablonski

Joanna is the Executive Editor of Real Python. She loves natural languages just as much as she loves programming languages!

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Brenda Weleschuk

Brenda Weleschuk

Brenda has a penchant for punctuation as Tutorial Editor for Real Python.

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Christopher Trudeau

Christopher Trudeau

Christopher has a passion for the Python language and writes for Real Python. He is a consultant who helps advise organizations on how to improve their technical teams.

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Marius Mogyorosi

Marius Mogyorosi

Marius is a tinkerer who loves using Python for creative projects within and beyond the software security field.

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Daniel Hepper

Daniel Hepper

Daniel is an independent software engineer, consultant, and trainer with a focus on web development with Django. He lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

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Haki Benita

Haki Benita

Haki is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python.

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Colin OKeefe

Colin OKeefe

Colin is a freelance Software Creative who travels the unixverse in the good ship Python.

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Sarah Jane Ross

Sarah Jane Ross

Sarah Jane operates from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, providing experienced leadership as the Content Operations Manager at Real Python, with a solid 12-year track record in managing remote teams.

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Kimberly Fessel

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Kimberly Fessel is a freelance data scientist and video instructor for Real Python. She specializes in data visualization, natural language processing, and technical instruction.

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Chyld Medford

Chyld Medford

Chyld is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python. He teaches data science and full stack software engineering to companies around the world. He loves functional programming, linear algebra, all things linux, machine learning ... and Python!

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Logan Jones

Logan Jones

Hi, I'm Logan, an open source contributor, writer for Real Python, software developer, and always trying to get better. Feel free to reach out and let's get better together!

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Dylan Castillo

Dylan Castillo

Dylan is a Data Scientist and self-taught developer specialized in Natural Language Processing (NLP). He has experience working on large-scale Machine Learning projects and enjoys writing about data-related topics.

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Geir Arne Hjelle

Geir Arne Hjelle

Geir Arne is an avid Pythonista and a member of the Real Python tutorial team.

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Kristijan Ivancic

Kristijan Ivancic

Hey, I'm Kristijan! I'm a CV/ML engineer and member of the Real Python tutorial team.

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Stephen Gruppetta

Stephen Gruppetta

Stephen worked as a research physicist in the past, developing imaging systems to detect eye disease. He now teaches coding in Python to kids and adults. And he's almost finished writing his first Python coding book for beginners

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Jasmine Finer

Jasmine Finer

Jasmine is a Django developer, based in London.

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Adriana Cutenco

Adriana Cutenco

Hello! I am Adriana - a Graphic Illustrator with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts.

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Reka Horvath

Reka Horvath

Reka is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python.

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Taranjeet Singh

Taranjeet Singh

Taranjeet is a software engineer, with experience in Django, NLP and Search, having build search engine for K12 students(featured in Google IO 2019) and children with Autism.

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Brad Solomon

Brad Solomon

Brad is a software engineer and a member of the Real Python Tutorial Team.

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Leodanis Pozo Ramos

Leodanis Pozo Ramos

Leodanis is an industrial engineer who loves Python and software development. He's a self-taught Python developer with 6+ years of experience. He's an avid technical writer with a growing number of articles published on Real Python and other sites.

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Michael Herman

Michael Herman

Michael is a software engineer and educator who lives and works in Denver, CO.

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Darren Jones

Darren Jones

With 20 years as a teacher of music technology, Darren is keen to bring his skills to the Python table.

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Christopher Bailey

Chris Bailey

Chris is an avid Pythonista and creates video tutorials for Real Python. He is a programmer and data analyst. He creates music under the name Tripnet. Chris lives in Colorado with his wife and two dogs.

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Kate Finegan

Kate Finegan

Kate relishes a well-placed comma as Tutorial Editor for Real Python.

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Jan-Hein Bührman

Jan-Hein Buhrman

Jan-Hein is a software developer who witnessed Python's first baby steps up very close. While working in different software development roles, he always kept an eye on Python's development. He's now back at the work he loves most: Python programming!

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Austin Cepalia

Austin Cepalia

Austin is a video tutorial author at Real Python. He's currently a student working towards a degree in computer science at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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John Sturtz

John Sturtz

John is an avid Pythonista and a member of the Real Python tutorial team.

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Florian Dahlitz

Florian Dahlitz

Florian is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python. He is a corporate student studying applied-computer science in Germany.

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Christian Koch

Christian Koch

Christian is a member of the Real Python team and teaches lots of subjects besides Python.

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Ryan Palo

Ryan Palo

Ryan is an author for Real Python, technical editor for books on Python, Hugo, and the command line, and a mold tooling designer. He loves Python, Ruby, Bash, and Rust. Also, physics, calculus, woodworking, and ukuleles. Looking for work!

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Alex Ronquillo

Alex Ronquillo

Alex Ronquillo is a Software Engineer at thelab. He’s an avid Pythonista who is also passionate about writing and game development.

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Abhinav Ajitsaria

Abhinav Ajitsaria

Abhinav is a Software Engineer from India. He loves to talk about system design, machine learning, AWS and of course, Python.

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Doug Farrell

Doug Farrell

Doug is a Python developer with more than 25 years of experience. He writes about Python on his personal website and works as a Senior Web Engineer with Shutterfly.

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Robert Alford

Rob Alford

Robert is a full-stack software developer, technical author and coding instructor based in Seattle.

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Paweł Fertyk

Paweł Fertyk

I'm a software developer with a passion for Python and open source.

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Bryan Weber

Bryan Weber

Bryan is a core developer of Cantera, the open-source platform for thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and transport. As a developer generalist, Bryan does Python from the web to data science and everywhere inbetween.

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Rich Bibby

Rich Bibby

Rich is an avid Pythonista and a video instructor at Real Python. He is also a Network Engineer using Python to automate the management of a large network infrastructure. He lives in Dubai, UAE, with his wife and daughter plus a Miniature Schnauzer.

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Moshe Zadka

Moshe Zadka

Moshe has been using Python since 1998. He has contributed to CPython, and is a founding member of the Twisted project. He has been teaching Python in various venues since 2002.

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David Amos

David Amos

David is a writer, programmer, and mathematician passionate about exploring mathematics through code.

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Martin Breuss

Martin Breuss

Martin likes automation, goofy jokes, and snakes, all of which fit into the Python community. He enjoys learning and exploring and is up for talking about it, too. He writes and records content for Real Python and CodingNomads.

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James Timmins

James Timmins

James is a software consultant and Python developer. When he's not writing Python, he's usually writing about it in blog or book form.

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Sarah Haq

Sarah Haq

Sarah is a Computer Science Lecturer at Leuphana University and is also leading a women-only Data Engineering Bootcamp initiative. Sarah has over ten years of experience working with data and building machine learning models in Python.

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Mirko Stojiljković

Mirko Stojiljkovic

Mirko has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and works as a university professor. He is a Pythonista who applies hybrid optimization and machine learning methods to support decision making in the energy sector.

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Brian Peterson

Brian Peterson

Brian is a PythonistaCafe Community Manager.

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James Mertz

James Mertz

James is a passionate Python developer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab who also writes on the side for Real Python.

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Luke Lee

Luke Lee

Luke has professionally written software for applications ranging from Python desktop and web applications to embedded C drivers for Solid State Disks. He has also spoken at PyCon, EuroPython, DjangoCo PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyconDE, and meetup groups.

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Douglas Starnes

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Douglas Starnes is a tech author and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in developer technologies in Memphis, TN. He is also the co-director of the Memphis Python User Group and has been working with Python professionally for 8 years.

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Pedro Pregueiro

Pedro Pregueiro

Hi! My name is Pedro and I'm a Python developer who loves coding, burgers and playing guitar.

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Sebastián Ramírez

Sebastián Ramírez

Hey! 👋 I'm Sebastián (tiangolo), I'm the creator of FastAPI, Typer, and other open source tools. I'm commonly building APIs and tools for data/ML systems. 🤖

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Harrison Hoffman

Harrison Hoffman

Harrison is an avid Pythonista, Data Scientist, and Real Python contributor. He has a background in mathematics, machine learning, and software development. Harrison lives in Texas with his wife, identical twin daughters, and two dogs.

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Andres Pineda

Andres Pineda

Andres is an avid Pythonista and a member of the Real Python team.

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Mahdi Yusuf

Mahdi Yusuf

Mahdi is the CTO of Gyroscope, the co-founder of the PyCoder’s Weekly, and a longtime Pythoneer.

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Jim Anderson

Jim Anderson

Jim has been programming for a long time in a variety of languages. He has worked on embedded systems, built distributed build systems, done off-shore vendor management, and sat in many, many meetings.

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Andrew Stephen

Andrew Stephen

Andrew is an avid Pythonista and creates video tutorials for Real Python. He is a qualified robotics and mechatronics engineer who works for an engineering firm as a production engineer and loves his sport, music, gaming and learning.

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Chad Hansen

Chad Hansen

Chad is an avid Pythonista and does web development with Django fulltime. Chad lives in Utah with his wife and six kids.

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Jason Van Schooneveld

Jason Van Schooneveld

Jason is a software developer based in Taipei. When he's not tinkering with electronics or building Django web apps, you can find him hiking the mountains of Taiwan or brushing up on his Chinese.

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Katy Gibson

Katy Gibson

Katy is a full-stack web developer with experience in high school science education. She enjoys teaching and learning and is just really excited to be here.

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Joe Tatusko

Joe Tatusko

Joe is a manufacturing engineer turned Pythonista with interests in data wrangling and visualization.

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Jahongir Rahmonov

Jahongir Rahmonov

Jahongir is a Software Engineer based in Berlin, originally from Uzbekistan. He loves to talk about Python, Django, GCP and Kubernetes.

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Joos Korstanje

Joos Korstanje

Hi! My name is Joos Korstanje. I've been working in statistics and data science for about five years. I'm a full-time Data Scientist at Disneyland Paris. In my free time I enjoy blogging about data science on Medium, Real Python and other platforms.

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Negar Vahid

Negar Vahid

Negar is a freelance Machine Learning Engineer and Real Python contributor.

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Lucas Lofaro

Lucas Lofaro

Lucas is a wandering Pythoneer with a curious mind and a desire to spread knowledge to those who seek it.

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Mike Driscoll

Mike Driscoll

Mike has been programming in Python for over a decade and loves writing about Python!

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Jacob Schmitt

Jacob Schmitt

Jacob is a longtime language editor and a relative newcomer to the world of Python programming. He's learning, just like you!

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Lee Gaines

Lee Gaines

Lee is a DevOps Engineer and Pythonista based in Berkeley, California.

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Dane Hillard

Dane Hillard

Dane is a Technical Architect at ITHAKA and is currently writing Publishing Python Packages.

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Anja Pircher

Anja Pircher

Anja is a graphic designer and a member of the Real Python tutorial team.

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Kyle Stratis

Kyle Stratis

Kyle is a self-taught developer working as a senior data engineer at Vizit Labs. In the past, he has founded DanqEx (formerly Nasdanq: the original meme stock exchange) and Encryptid Gaming.

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Miguel Garcia

Miguel Garcia

Miguel has been working in different roles in IT for over a decade. He has a MSc. degree in Computer Science and enjoys building things using open source technologies.

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Joska de Langen

Joska de Langen

Joska is a DevOps Architect who loves programming in Python.

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Ian Eyre

Ian Eyre

Ian is an avid Pythonista and Real Python contributor who loves to learn and teach others.

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Ricky White

Ricky White

Ricky is a Python developer and writer who has a tendency to refer to himself in the third person. By day he is a stay-at-home dad, and by night he’s a crime-fighting ninja. You can often find him on Twitter, or at endlesstrax.com.

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Liam Pulsifer

Liam Pulsifer

Liam is a software engineer and avid Pythonista. When he's not writing code to automate all of his daily tasks, you can often find him running, playing basketball and tennis, reading, or eating good food.

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Aldren Santos

Aldren Santos

Hi, I'm Aldren and I'm the guy that helps to make this site awesome for your eyes! :)

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Ian Currie

Ian Currie

Ian is a Python nerd who relies on it for work and much enjoyment.

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Santiago Valdarrama

Santiago Valdarrama

Santiago is a software and machine learning engineer who specializes in building enterprise software applications.

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Philipp Acsany

Philipp Acsany

Philipp is a Berlin-based software engineer with a graphic design background and a passion for full-stack web development.

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Jackie Wilson

Jackie Wilson

Jackie teaches computer science full-time for Cecil College, and fell in love with Python many years ago when she realized it wasn't pseudocode, but an actual language.

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Kevin Arvai

Kevin Arvai

Kevin is a data scientist for a clinical genomics company, a Pythonista, and an NBA fan.

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Andre Burgaud

Andre Burgaud

Andre is a seasoned software engineer passionate about technology and programming languages, in particular, Python.

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Malay Agarwal

Malay Agarwal

A tech geek with a philosophical mind and a hand that can wield a pen.

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Mandy Wong

Mandy Wong

Mandy is a budding Pythonista who wants to share her love and knowledge of Python and software engineering with the world. She is also a TinyML + Data Engineer in training, a Muley, and an aspiring part-time top competitive golfer.

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Anthony Shaw

Anthony Shaw

Anthony is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python. Anthony is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and member of the Open-Source Apache Foundation.

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Vincent Matinde

Vincent Matinde

Vincent Matinde is a Python developer with a strong passion for coding and problem-solving. Over the past four years, he has immersed himself in the world of Python including data analytics, and web development.

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Dan Bader

Dan Bader

Dan Bader is the owner and editor in chief of Real Python and the main developer of the realpython.com learning platform. Dan has been writing code for more than 20 years and holds a master's degree in computer science.

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Alexis Drakopoulos

Alexis Drakopoulos

Hi! I am a Machine Learning Engineer passionate about writing clean maintainable code. My interests range from low latency & high performance systems to various areas of applied mathematics such as statistical learning & probabilistic programming.

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Christian Mondorf

Christian Mondorf

Christian is an avid Pythonista and video instructor at Real Python.

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Tappan Moore

Tappan Moore

Video editor for Real Python.

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Claudia Ng

Claudia Ng

Claudia is an avid Pythonista and Real Python contributor. She is a Data Scientist and has worked for several tech startups specializing in the areas of credit and fraud risk modeling.

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Howard Francis

Howard Francis

Howard is an avid Pythonista and records video courses for Real Python. He has been teaching beginning programming at the college level for over 20 years in C++, Java, C#, and most recently Python.

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Bartosz Zaczyński

Bartosz Zaczyński

Bartosz is a bootcamp instructor, author, and polyglot programmer in love with Python. He helps his students get into software engineering by sharing over a decade of commercial experience in the IT industry.

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Sadie Parker

Sadie Parker

Sadie contributes to written tutorials and video courses at Real Python.

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Vuyisile Ndlovu

Vuyisile Ndlovu

Django developer and open source enthusiast.

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This site is a team effort and there are a lot of awesome folks here working really hard to give back to the Python community. So what can you do?

  • Say hello in person: If you meet one of us at a conference or tech meetup, be sure to say hi.
  • Follow us on Twitter: If you want to see what the team is tweeting about you can usually find their Twitter account on their about page.
  • Say thank you: If you like a tutorial or someone helps you on the comments, thank the tutorial author(s) or commenter. It’s always nice to know your efforts are appreciated.
  • Read about the team: Check their about page and find out more about everyone on the team.
  • Join in: This community depends on the participation of everyone, so join in and contribute to the comments. Ask questions, answer others, and add to the discussion.

Thank You!

Thank you so much for reading this web site and being a part of our community!

We hope you enjoy our tutorials and we look forward to getting to know you.

Happy Pythoning!