Doug Hellmann

Doug Hellmann is currently a Senior Cloud Developer with New Dream Network, LLC (DreamHost) and works on OpenStack. He has been programming in Python since version 1.4, and has worked on a variety of Unix and non-Unix platforms for projects in fields such as mapping, medical news publishing, banking, and data center automation. Doug is a member of the Python Software Foundation, and served as its Communications Director from 2010-2012. After a year as a regular columnist for Python Magazine, he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008-2009. Since 2007, Doug has published the popular "Python Module of the Week" series on his blog, and that material served as the basis for his 2011 book "The Python Standard Library By Example". He lives in Athens, Georgia.