The Real Python Team

Leodanis is an industrial engineer who loves Python and software development. He is a self-taught Python programmer with 5+ years of experience building desktop applications.

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

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

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, PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyconDE, and meetup groups.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Dan is the Chief Python Nut at Real Python. He helps Python developers take their coding skills to the next level with Python tutorials, books, and online training.

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

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. He can often be found in a local coffee shop, or at endlesstrax.com.

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

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

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.

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

Martin loves programming, goofy jokes, snakes and humans! All of this makes him feel connected to the Python community all the way down to the bottom turtle. He likes to learn and explore and talk about it—and he creates tutorials for Real Python.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Tappan is not sure he can call himself a Pythonista, but he edits video for Real Python anyway.

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

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

Dane is a Lead Web Application Developer at ITHAKA and author of Practices of the Python Pro.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Kyle is a self-taught developer working as a research infrastructure engineer at Affectiva and a cofounder of Danqex (formerly Nasdanq) and Encryptid Gaming.

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.

Joska is an Ordina Pythoneer who writes for Real Python.

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.

Liam is a college student 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Brian is a PythonistaCafe Community Manager.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Django developer and open source enthusiast.

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

Haki is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python.

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

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

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.

Reka is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python.

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.

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

Bryan is a mechanical engineering professor and a core developer of Cantera, the open-source platform for thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and transport.

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!

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!

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

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.

Developer and editor of “the Python Corner". Blood donor, Apple user, Python and Swift addicted. NFL, Rugby and Chess lover. Constantly hungry and foolish.

Hi, I'm Isaac. I build, lead, and mentor software development teams, and for the past few years I've been focusing on cloud services and back-end applications using Python among other languages. Love to hear from you here at Real Python.

David is a mathematician by training, a data scientist/Python developer by profession, and a coffee junkie by choice.