Raymond Hettinger
Python Trainer. CPython contributor. Instrumental in modules such as bisect, collections, decimal, functools, and itertools.
Rachel Thomas
Selected by Forbes as one of “20 Incredible Women Advancing AI Research.” Co-founder of fast.ai. Researcher-in-residence at USF Data Institute
Simon Willison
Co-creator of the Django web framework. Co-founder Lanyrd. Now an Engineering Director @Eventbrite
Travis Oliphant
Creator of SciPy, NumPy, and Numba. Founder of Anaconda and Quansight
Carol Willing
Project Jupyter and CPython core dev. Calpoly research engineer.
David Blank-Edelman
Editor for O'Reilly’s “Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale”
Paige Bailey
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft for Machine Learning, DataViz, and AI
Yury Selivanov
Core Python on async/await. Founder of EdgeDB
Brandon Rhodes
Former PyCon Chair and has spoken at Python conferences from Portland to Warsaw and Budapest
wesley chun
Author of Core Python series and co-author of Python Web Development with Django
Sourabh Bajaj
Software Engineer at Google working on Google Brain and Tensorflow