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C. Titus Brown studies developmental biology, bioinformatics, and software engineering at Michigan State University, and he has also worked in the fields of digital evolution and physical meteorology. A cross-cutting theme of much of his work has been software development for computational science, which has led him into software testing and agile software development practices. He is also a member of Python Software Foundation and the author of several widely used Python testing toolkits.

Website: catherinedevlin.blogspot.com
Twitter: @catherinedevlin
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Catherine Devlin became an Oracle database administrator in 2000; since 2003, she has used Python to make her DBA work more productive and fun. She has written for Python Magazine and the Oracle Technology Network, and spoken on Python at many regional and national events.

She has been PyOhio's chair since it began in 2008. She works for IntelliTech Systems in Dayton, OH and blogs at catherinedevlin.blogspot.com.

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 2007, having presented on Python or IronPython at events such as Cleveland Day of .NET 2008, Software Freedom Day - Cleveland 2008, and notably PyCon 2009. She is also serving as the publicity lead for the 2009 PyOhio. In addition to her technical blog at http://www.codinggeekette.com, Sarah maintains a community site at http://www.clevelandtechevents.com.

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Website: http://www.amyiris.com
Twitter: @amyiris
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For 16 years, Jerry was employed by Hewett-Packard as a Systems Engineer and a Manager of Technical Consultants supporting major accounts including P&G, GE, Walmart, GM and others. He has participated in the building and support of the programs and technologies at some of America’s largest corporations. During the past 13 years, Jerry has been the co-owner and executive of a 15-person Cincinnati-based software business, Electronic Commerce Link. Jerry has spoken at international conferences before, including the HP International Users Group and the P&G Worldwide Users Conference. He holds a BS in Systems Analysis from Miami University and a MBA from the University of Cincinnati. Jerry is a self-taught Python programmer and enthusiast.

Website: http://www.forecastadvisor.com, http://www.forecastwatch.com, http://www.intellovations.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/floehr
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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 currently 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 130 million weather forecasts since 2004. ForecastWatch was the subject of a Python Success Story (http://www.python.org/about/success/forecastwatch/) and was recently named Django Site of The Week (http://djangositeoftheweek.com/forecastwatch/). Additionally, he is 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/).

Website: http://lazypython.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @alex_gaynor
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Alex Gaynor is a sophmore computer science student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He's been using and contributing to Django for nearly two years. He's currently working on multiple database support in Django as a part of the Google Summer of Code as well as doing an internship at The Onion, America's finest news source. In addition to Django, Alex enjoys working on optimizing dynamic languages.

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Gloria Jacobs has 20+ years software design and development experience for large and small companies. Python software development since 2001, getting several start-ups off the ground from scratch. Python simply rocks.

Website: http://www.steveasleep.com
Twitter: @irskep
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Steve Johnson is a student at Case Western Reserve University and has been programming in Python for about a year and a half. In his free time he enters game programming competitions and he is currently working on a book about Python game programming.

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Neil Ludban is a senior developer at the Ohio Supercomputer Center where he works with academic and industry experts to web-enable high performance computing applications for engineers and scientists. Prior to joining OSC he worked for small companies doing embedded systems development for real-time data acquisition and wireless network devices. He's been using Python for various projects for around 10 years, most recently to manage processes on Linux clusters and building web applications with Pylons.

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William McVey is a network security engineer for Cisco Systems, where he builds automation to help a security research team monitor and analyze honeypots, honeynets, darknets, botnet infiltrations, email and web based malware, and other security intelligence sources. William began working with python in 2000, when he joined Cisco as part of the Security Consulting practice, doing penetration testing and vulnerability audits using a custom toolset that relies heavily on python.

When not in front of a keyboard, he is likely to either be digging around in the garden, playing with his two sons, or thinking about cool personal projects that he doesn't have time to implement.

Website: http://www.sixfeetup.com
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Clayton Parker has been creating dynamic web sites using the Plone Content Management System since 2004. He started out at Six Feet Up, Inc. as a Systems Administrator, which gives him an interesting take on Plone deployment. In 2007, Clayton started using zc.buildout to manage and deploy their Plone sites. As a Senior Developer at Six Feet Up, he has created and contributed to buildout recipes in use by the Community. In 2008 he wrote a chapter for the "Practical Plone" book entitled "Set Up Repeatable Environments using Buildout".

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Bill Punch is an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineers (CSE) at Michigan State University. His areas of research are evolutionary computation (specifically genetic programming) and text data mining. He has taught the introductory computer science course for department majors over the last 13 years. During that time, CSE has transitioned from Pascal, to C++ and most recently to Python. The transition to Python has proven to be very successful for both majors and non-majors. As a result of this experience, he and his colleague Rich Enbody have written a book titled "The Science and Practice of Computing using Python: a CS1 Text", to be published by AW-Pearson in Feb 2010.

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Jay Shaffstall teaches Computer Science at Muskingum College in Ohio. He's intrigued by genetic programming and evolutionary computing and anything simulation related where emergent behaviors might start to arise. He worked for a living before starting teaching and holds the distinction of every project in his 15 year industry career using a different language or technology. He discovered Python a few years back, and has been an advocate ever since.

Website: http://www.traceback.org
Twitter: @dstanek
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David Stanek has been developing software professionally for over 12 years. He is currently a Lead Architect at AG Interactive, a leading provider of self expression content. Python has been his language of choice for over 8 years both on and off of the job.

David spends much of his free work time working on open source projects and sharpening his technical skills. He enjoys reading technical books and listening to a variety of podcasts and audio books. Google him for more information.

When I'm not working I enjoy spending time with my beautiful wife and 3 wonderful children.

Website: http://www.szakmeister.net
Twitter: @jszakmeister
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John was first introduced to Python seven years ago, and immediately dropped Perl in favor of Python. Since then, he has used Python every day, ranging from scripting activities to distributed testing to rapid prototyping.

John's background is primarily in Embedded Systems and device driver development, but has a keen interest in compilers, virtual machines, and programming languages. Outside of work, he participates in open source development. In the past, he could be found working on Subversion. These days, his focus is shifting to Python core development, Bazaar, and QBzr.

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Website: http://www.caffeinatedjoe.com
Twitter: @joetyson
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Joe Tyson is just a typical boring, non-sarcastic comp sci. engineer. He spends hours and hours trying to understand how dynamically typed compiled languages work. Unfortunately, he has severe ADHD and gets about two minutes into it before dazing off at his lava lamp.

Joe used PHP for a long time, and then got fed up with "that" community and went to the infamous Ruby on Rails. Joe, being a system admin type of guy, found that he didn't like RoR (pronounced "ROAR!"). After he spent a year with RoR, he made a smooth transition to the great, stable, scalable, friendly, and rock solid Django on Python or DoP (pronounced "Dope").

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