Rick van Hattem - Mastering Python

Rick van Hattem is an experienced programmer, entrepreneur, and software/database architect with over 20 years of programming experience, including 15 with Python. Additionally, he has a lot of experience with high-performance architectures featuring large amounts of concurrent users and/or data.

Rick has founded several start-ups and has done consulting for many companies, including a few Y Combinator start-ups and several large companies. One of the startups he founded, Fashiolista.com, is one of the largest social networks for fashion in the world, featuring millions of users and the performance challenges to accompany those.

Rick was one of the reviewers on the book PostgreSQL Server Programming , Packt Publishing .

Thanks to my family, in particular Marloes, who supported me every step of the way; and my mother and sister, who have always been there for me.

Randall Degges is a happy programmer, speaker, author, and amateur bodybuilder living in California.

Growing up in Los Angeles, he was intensely interested in building command-line programs and writing quality software. His love of programming eventually propelled him into a successful career in software development.

Randall has been a life-long open source developer and has contributed to hundreds of popular projects in Python, Node.js, and Go. He's also the author of several popular libraries, which you can find on his public GitHub account at https://github.com/rdegges.

At 23, he cofounded an extremely popular API service in the telephony industry: OpenCNAM (https://www.opencnam.com). At 25, he joined Stormpath (https://stormpath.com) as the head of developer evangelism, whereby he writes open source security libraries full time and travels the world giving technical talks about building secure software.

In his free time, Randall writes and edits technical books, runs a security podcast called Stormcast (https://www.stormca.st), posts blogs on his personal website (https://www.rdegges.com), and tries to spend time with his high-school sweetheart, Samantha.

Dave de Fijter is a Python developer from the Netherlands. He always knew he would end up "doing something with computers." At a young age, he went to the library to read books about them even though he had no computer at that time. This obsession never really ended. In 2001, aged 14, he started his first part-time job, creating dynamic websites in PHP for a local web development company, and there he found his calling.

In 2007, he finished his bachelor's degree in ICT while already working full time as a PHP developer for over a year. In 2008, he switched from PHP to Python and Django for web development and loved this new technology stack so much that he never looked back.

After working as a Python developer for various start-ups and established companies, Dave used this experience to start his own business called Indentity (https://indentity.nl) in 2010, focusing on Python/Django development and advice. Up until now, he runs this company and mainly spends his time helping out start-ups with designing and building technologically advanced web applications from the ground up as an interim CTO/technical cofounder.

I. de Hoogt , with some basic experience wrought from university assignments in the field of modeling of multi-phase flows, got himself started in software development. His main experience in programming in Python stems from an internship at a company dealing in 3D printing software, where a package resulting in optimized object orientation and guaranteed mathematical mesh validity was created.

Other projects that he's been involved with have dealt with control systems such as self-parking cars, multi-legged robots, and quadcopters, but his current job is in the field of data analysis.

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