The Real Python Team

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 rickywhite.dev.

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

Joska is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python.

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.

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.

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

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.

After 6 years of teaching high school math, Krishelle switched careers and now works as a Site Reliability Engineer at Dropbox in San Francisco, CA.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Joe is a research engineer specialising in energy. As the energy sector transforms, Joe has found himself knee deep in energy data and has adopted Python as his main tool to make sense of it all.

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.

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.

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

Rebecca is a PhD student in computer vision and artificial intelligence applied to medical images. She's passionate about teaching.

Brian is a PythonistaCafe Community Manager.

David is a Python developer with a background in database administration and development. He currently owns equipment to brew coffee 6 different ways.

Haki is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python.

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

Alexander is an avid Pythonista who spends his time on various creative projects involving programming, music, and creative writing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Steve is a data scientist, physicist, and avid Pythonista. In his spare time, he enjoys playing with his kids, ballroom dancing, playing Ultimate Frisbee, and [breaking then] fixing computers.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Programmer/Musician, constantly trying to create something worthwhile, getting better at my craft in the process

Danish is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python.

Vuyisile enjoys seeing software make a visible difference in the lives of people in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jasmine is a Django developer, based in London.

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

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

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

Leon is a data scientist at Apple, self-taught Pythonista, and contributor to Real Python.

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.

Rok is a software engineer from Slovenia. Member of the Real Python Tutorial Team.

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.

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

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

Ralu is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python. She is a DevOps engineer specializing in cloud computing, with a penchant for AWS.

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

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.

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

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

I'm an experienced software engineer with interests in artificial intelligence and machine learning. I'm currently a postgraduate student at The University of Manchester, studying Advanced Computer Science with a specialisation in AI.

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.

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

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.

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

Nathan is a member of the Real Python tutorial team who started his programmer career with C a long time ago, but eventually found Python. From web applications and data collection to networking and network security, he enjoys all things Pythonic.