Marc-André Lemburg
Python
- Python developer since 1993/1994
- Python Core Developer since 1997
Designed and implemented the Python Unicode Integration (PEP 100), including the codecs sub-system
Contributed the platform module to Python
Contributed the pybench CPython micro-benchmark suite to Python
Contributed the locale module's locale aliasing engine to Python
Editor of the Python DB-API Specifications (Version 1.0 - PEP 248 and Version 2.0 - PEP 249)
Author or co-author of many Python extensions (the mx packages):
eGenix mx Base (mxDateTime, mxTextTools, mxTools, mxBeeBase, mxProxy, mxURL, mxUID, mxStack, mxQueue)
eGenix mx Experimental (mxNumber, mxTidy)
eGenix PyRun (Python runtime in just 4-13MB)
eGenix pyOpenSSL (pyOpenSSL with embedded OpenSSL libs and several add-ons)
and quite a few commercial Python, Django and Zope products:
eGenix mxODBC (ODBC database interface)
eGenix mxODBC Connect (ODBC database interface for remote database access)
eGenix mxODBC Zope/Plone DA (ODBC database interface for Zope and Plone)
eGenix mxODBC Django Database Engine (ODBC database interface for Django)
Python Community
Founding member and Fellow of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) (2001-today)
PSF Board Member (2002-2004, 2010-today)
Executive organizer of the first EuroPython conference in Charleroi 2002. Co-organizer of EuroPython 2003.
EuroPython Society (EPS) Board Member (2012-today)
One of the initiators of the German PyCon DE conference series (2011)
Co-founder of the Python Meeting Düsseldorf (PyDDF), a local Python meeting (2012-today)
Regular speaker at Python conferences
Python Software Foundation Projects
PSF Python Brochure - project lead (2011-today); the first print run of 5,000 copies was launched in time for PyCon US 2014 in Montreal, the second run of another 5,000 copies was launched in time for PyCon US 2015 in Montreal
PSF Python Job Board Team - kickstarted the project to migrate the old job board procedure to the new python.org's jobs app (Feb 2014 - Aug 2014; Jan 2015-today); the project was hold pending python.org site updates for several months, it picked up speed again early in Feb 2015 and we were able to relaunched the Job board on 2015-03-19
PSF Python Events Calendars - project lead (2012-today)
PSF Marketing Material Project - mostly myself pushing the PSF forward to do more active Python marketing in classical areas such as creating logos, conference displays, flyers, stickers, brochures and sending these around the world to help Python community members to promote Python (2011-today)
Admin of the Python wikis (https://wiki.python.org/) (2013-today)
Admin of http://www.pycon.org/ and the pycon.org sub-domains. I owned the pycon.org domain from 2003-2012 before I contributed it to the PSF. (2003-today)
Admin of the PSF's Gandi domain registrar account and the PSF domains, taking care of registrations, renewals, transfers and updates. I also negotiated the special terms and discounts we're getting from Gandi. (2013-today)
Admin of the PSF's StartSSL certificate account, creating PSF SSL certificates for PSF infrastructure and community sites. (2014-today)
Founding member of the PSF Trademark Committee (2008-today)
Several smaller PSF projects: 2014/2015, 2013/2014, 2012/2013, 2011/2012, 2011/2012, 2010
EuroPython Society Projects
Created the EPS website on Tumblr with the help and input of the EPS board members (Jan 2014)
Created the EuroPython Blog on Tumblr (Jan 2014)
Created the EPS logo (2014)
Registered the EuroPython trademark for the EPS (2014)
- Admin of the EPS accounts, mailing lists and other IP assets (2012-today)
Chair of the EuroPython Admin Workgroup (2015)
Chair of the EuroPython Communications Workgroup (2015)
Business
CEO and owner of eGenix.com, a company specializing in custom Python projects, consulting, coaching, web, security and database technologies
- Available as Python architect, consultant, coach, project leader and speaker
Contact
Email: mal@egenix.com
- Phone: +49 211 9304112
- Based in Düsseldorf, Germany
test without reverse DNS lookups