Mike Pirnat has been wrangling Pythons at ecard leader [American Greetings](http://www.americangreetings.com) since 2000, where the siren song of Python 1.5 wooed him away from his former life as a Perl zealot. Since then he's guided major technology improvements, battled the forces of darkness (okay, mostly IE and Javascript), and splits his time between leading ninja strike teams, educating the next generations of rising developers, and organizing AG's annual Hack Day. He also co-hosts and produces [From Python Import Podcast](http://frompythonimportpodcast.com) when there aren't a million other things going on.