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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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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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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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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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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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Dane Hillard

Dane Hillard

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

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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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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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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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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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David Amos

David Amos

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

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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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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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Michael Herman

Michael Herman

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

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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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Anja Pircher

Anja Pircher

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

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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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Lee Gaines

Lee Gaines

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

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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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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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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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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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Sadie Parker

Sadie Parker

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alex Ronquillo