Erik wrangles Python at Votizen, which is trying to fix American democracy. Previously, he built web apps at Mozilla, looking after some of the highest-trafficked Django sites in the world. He's also sojourned in the Zope and Plone universe, where he wrote several popular plugins for the content management system, served on the Plone Framework Team, and authored the book Plone 3 for Education. In his spare time, he thinks about how to make formal languages fit humans' brains more closely.