2010/Presenters

Website: http://jeff.rainbow-100.com/
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Jeffrey Armstrong is a Controls Engineer with ASRC Aerospace Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. He has 10 years experience designing and implementing numerical simulations in a variety of languages, including Fortran, Matlab, and Python. In the past he has worked in microgravity research, rocket trajectory validation and verification, and enterprise medical software fields. He currently participates in air-breathing propulsion diagnostics research. Outside of work, he maintains a sizeable collection of vintage computer hardware and occasionally dabbles in programming competitions.

Website: http://blog.nickbastin.com
Twitter: @_nbastin
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Nick Bastin is a senior software engineer at OPNET Technologies in Bethesda, MD where he uses Python in a myriad of projects - both embedded in larger C++ applications and as the primary implementation language. He can be found not blogging at http://blog.nickbastin.com, and more frequently tweeting on sports and software development under @_nbastin.

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James has been using Python to solve various problems in engineering and business process operations. He recieved the MSEE from OSU and runs an electrical engineering R&D firm, Atlantix Engineering.

Website: http://meatballhat.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/meatballhat
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Dan has been a full-time Python developer for the past 4 years and Python is his weapon of choice outside of work as well. He is especially interested in programming for the Web and the command line, problems related to Python package distribution and gaining a better understanding of CPython internals.

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Sam Corder is the author and founder of the oldest community supported .Net/Mono driver for MongoDB. He has been a polyglot programmer of many years while constantly trying to improve his craft. He has served as an Enterprise Architect, Technical Analyst and Senior Programmer at his current company for the past 8 years.

Website: http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com
Twitter: @catherinedevlin
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Catherine Devlin (catherinedevlin.blogspot.com) is an Oracle DBA and Python enthusiast from Dayton, and chair of PyOhio. David Murray is a core Python committer. Both are members of the Python Software Foundation.

Website: http://www.codinggeekette.com/
Twitter: @sadukie
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Sarah Dutkiewicz is a self-admitted programming language addict, having done work in PHP, Visual Basic, FoxPro, VBA, VB.NET, Javascript, and C#. Outside of the office, she's been tinkering with Python and IronPython since January 2008, having presented on Python or IronPython at events such as Cleveland Day of .NET, Software Freedom Day - Cleveland 2008, and notably PyCon 2009. In addition to her technical blog at http://www.codinggeekette.com, Sarah maintains a community site at http://www.clevelandtechevents.com

Website: http://www.intellovations.com/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/floehr
Twitter: @ForecastWatch
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Eric has been fascinated by computers ever since touring CompuServe's data center in the late-70's. He started programming in BASIC on the family's Ohio Scientific Institute Challenger 2P, then Commodore VIC-20, 64, and Amiga, with stints on CompuServe's DEC mainframes in-between. From BASIC, Fortran, 6502 Assembly, Forth, Turbo Pascal, C, C++, Java, Ruby, and everything in between, he has found love with Python.

Eric is the founder and CEO of Intellovations, a small company that created ForecastWatch, the only comparative weather forecast verification system in the world. In use by The Weather Channel, CustomWeather, Meteorlogix, and others, ForecastWatch has scored over 160 million weather forecasts since 2004. ForecastWatch was the subject of a Python Success Story (http://www.python.org/about/success/forecastwatch/) and was named Django Site of The Week (http://djangositeoftheweek.com/forecastwatch/). Eric was previously CTO of 3X Systems, a venture-backed startup providing the easiest-to-use full-featured backup appliance for small and medium-sized businesses. The appliance has received great reviews, most recently on CrunchGear (http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/23/review-3x-remote-backup-appliance/). However, he is now devoting his full attention to growing his weather venture.

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Brent Friedman

Current role: Director of IT for www.trollandtoad.com Past: IT consultant, software architect, developer, database programmer, systems analyst for businesses ranging from small shops to Fortune 500 clients.

Currently pursuing a doctorate from Valdosta State University in Georgia.

Website: http://lazypython.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @alex_gaynor
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Alex Gaynor is a junior computer science student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He's an avid contributor to Django, PyPy, and Unladen Swallow.

Website: http://blog.mitechie.com
Twitter: @mitechie
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Rick Harding is a software developer for Michigan based Market Research company Morpace, is an lover of all things Web, and wishes everyone else thought tiling window managers and ZSH were so awesome.

Website: http://www.sixfeetup.com/
Twitter: @calvinhp
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As Chief Technology Officer for Six Feet Up, Calvin is responsible for researching cutting-edge advances that could become part of the company’s technology road map.

Calvin provides both the company and its clients with recommendations on tools and technologies, systems architecture and solutions that address specific information-sharing needs. His goal is to promote best practices and processes, and create a knowledge-sharing culture to enhance the effectiveness of operations and professionals.

Calvin is well-known in the Plone Community for being an excellent speaker who can communicate effectively with all levels of an organization.

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Gloria has been doing software development for 20+ years, spending the last ten on Python back end algorithm work and highly customized server-side services. She is a member of the PSF, a senior developer and mentor in NYC, and speaks at conferences worldwide.

Twitter: @gslindstrom
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Greg Lindstrom manages the IT department at Novasys Health in Little Rock, Arkansas where Python is used to create software to process claims for the Health Care industry. He has been programming professionally for 25 years and using Python for the past 8 years. He has served as the tutorial coordinator for PyCon (US) for the past three years.

When Greg is not writing code you will find him playing Tuba in the Little Rock Wind Symphony or spending time with his two daughters. He is also a licensed Ham (KF5CJR).

Website: http://gregmalcolm.com
Twitter: @gregmalcolm
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Greg has had a passion for writing code since the 80s, starting with BASIC on the BBC Micro Model B. He blames growing up with home computers and an insufficient supply of computer games. Nowadays he's a bit of a serial dabbler, currently working with projects in Python, Ruby, .NET and C++.

He doesn't miss loading software from cassette tapes one little bit.

Website: http://crunchtools.com/
Twitter: @fatherlinux
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I have been a systems administrator for about 11 years. Now days I program most of my tools in python. I have released several systems administrators tools as open source, with several more to follow because my current employer is understanding of open source.

I have worked at NASA managing large super computers, American Greetings Interactive managing ~1K linux machines, and running a 150 node datacenter from top to bottom for www.eyemg.com.

Recently, I have had a large focus on architecting and writing several systems administrator tools (crunchtools.com). My goal has been to create swiss army chainsaws for systems administrators and developers which convey both best practice and technical resolution to DevOps problems.

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William McVey is a software developer for the Applied Security Research group at Cisco Systems. His projects include managing the data analysis associated with large scale Honeypot and Client Honeypot deployments in order to extract useful network intelligence that can be used to improve Cisco's suite of security and routing products. William has been programming primarily in Python since joining Cisco Systems over 10 years ago.

When not at work, William is kept busy by his twin 8 year old boys.

Website: http://www.sixfeetup.com/
Twitter: @claytron
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Clayton has been creating dynamic websites using the Plone content management system since 2004. He started out at Six Feet Up, Inc. as a Systems Administrator, which he is leveraging when working on Plone deployment projects.

As Senior Developer at Six Feet Up, Clayton has created and contributed to many buildout recipes in use by the Community. He is a big proponent of following best practices for effectively delivering quality projects that can scale in the long term.

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System Administrator for AG Interactive. Recovering Perl Monger. Guitarist.

Website: http://tplus1.com/
Twitter: @mw44118
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Dad, programmer, gardener, entrepeneur, internet crackpot. Blogs at http://blog.tplus1.com.

Website: http://evadeflow.com/
Twitter: @evadeflow
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David Wolfe is a twelve-year veteran of the visual simulation industry who is constantly doing battle with Big Balls of Mud written in C++. His favorite weapon in the fight is Python, since it allows him to quickly write a suite of tests that verify the behavior of some horrid C++ component, then slide in a less horrid replacement while no one is even looking. It almost feels like cheating.

David lives in Royal Oak, Michigan, just northwest of Detroit. When not refactoring stovepipe systems, he enjoys biking, geocaching, puzzling over the mysteries of Reason 4, and yelling at kids to get off his lawn.