Michał Jaworski - Expert Python Programming, Third Edition

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Micha Jaworski has 10 years' of professional experience in Python. He has been in various roles at different companies, from an ordinary full-stack developer, through software architect, to VP of engineering in a fast-paced start-up company. He is currently a senior backend engineer at Showpad. He is highly experienced in designing high-performance distributed services. He is also an active contributor to many open source Python projects.

Tarek Ziad is a Python developer located in the countryside near Dijon, France. He works at Mozilla in the services team. He founded a French Python user group called Afpy, and has written several books about Python in French and English. When he is not hacking on his computer or hanging out with his family, he's spending time between his two passions, running and playing the trumpet.

You can visit his personal blog (Fetchez le Python) and follow him on Twitter (tarek_ziade).

Cody Jackson is a disabled military veteran, the founder of Socius Consulting, an IT and business management consulting company in San Antonio, and a co-founder of Top Men Technologies. He is currently employed at CACI International as the lead ICS/SCADA modeling and simulations engineer. He has been involved in the tech industry since 1994, when he joined the Navy as a nuclear chemist and radcon technician. Prior to CACI, he worked at ECPI University as a computer information systems adjunct professor. A self-taught Python programmer, he is the author of Learning to Program Using Python and Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja. He holds an Associate in Science degree, a Bachelor of Science degree, and a Master of Science degree.

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