PyCon X


2nd - 5th May 2019

Alex Martelli

Alex Martelli
The Aleax
Technical interests
best-practices, continuous-integration, HTTP, data-analysis, api, distributed, PSF, cloud, principles, open-source, appengine, testing, Algorithms, business
Sunnyvale, CA
Compact biography

Alex has been programming for over thirty years, mainly in Python for the recent half of that time. He wrote the first two editions of Python in a Nutshell and co-authored the first two editions of the Python Cookbook. He’s a PSF Fellow, and won the 2002 Activators’ Choice Award and the 2006 Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to the Python community. He's active on Stackoverflow and a frequent speaker at technical conferences. He's been living in Silicon Valley with his wife Anna for twelve years, and working at Google throughout this time, currently as Senior Staff Engineer leading "long tail" tech support for the Google Cloud Platform.