The Real Python Team

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Joska is an Ordina Pythoneer who writes for Real Python.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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. 🤖

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tappan isn't quite a Pythonista, but he edits video for Real Python anyway.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Brian is a PythonistaCafe Community Manager.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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