Great pythonistas to follow

Some initial considerations

Experience

Whether you’re just getting into the Python world or you’re a veteran looking for some inspiration, here are some folks who can help!

They are all worth your follow, they all talk about our preferred language 😉

X

There will be a lot of X links. Most of the tech community is still there.

2023-09-04 update: I’m finding more and more people on Mastodon and the interaction is more real and spontaneous. Check it out.

Notes

There are a lot of Django people. I’m a web dev in the end 🤷.
There are not enough women! Please, recommend me someone that I should add! Diversity is important.
I wrote this article in just one night, please excuse mistakes and oversights 🙏

Here are the people

Daniel Roy Greenfeld

Co-author of Two Scoops of Django. He cares a lot about the future of our planet. He is also a former NASA coder.

Carlton Gibson

@carltongibson on X
@carlton@fosstodon.org on the Fediverse
noumenal.es

Django and PSF Fellow. Mostly working on and with Django. If you want to talk deeply about Django with someone, he is the right person. If you have the opportunity to meet him at a conference he will always be ready and available to exchange a few words.

Andrew Godwin

@andrewgodwin on X
aeracode.org
@andrew@aeracode.org on the Fediverse
@andrewgodwin on Github

Python/Django developer, speaker, and hobby collector. Works @astronomerio.

He is also the creator of the Takahē project, an ActivityPub server designed for efficient use on small- to medium-size installations.

Patrick Arminio

@patrick91 on X
@patrick@farbun.social on the Fediverse
patrick.wtf

Developer Advocate @apollographql, @pyconit organiser, @ThePSF Fellow. He is also the creator of Strawberry, a new GraphQL library for Python 3, inspired by Dataclasses.

One of the most influential people, or perhaps the most, in my career. He is always ready to recommend the latest cool tool around and talk about the latest trends.

You’ll love Patrick ❤️

Audrey Roy Greenfeld

She is best known for being a programmer. She created the popular Cookiecutter project templating tool in 2013, now open source on GitHub with over 10,000 stars. She is one of the primary authors of Cookiecutter Django, one of the most widely-used Django web application project templates.

Co-author of Two Scoops of Django.

She graduated from MIT in 2005 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science.

Audrey also has a deep passion for fiction writing.

Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko on X
@mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io on the Fediverse
mitsuhiko.at

He is the creator of Flask and he is behind the Pallets Projects collection. Now he is working @getsentry. He loves API design, Python and Rust.

Matt Harrison

@__mharrison__ on X

Matt Harrison is a corporate trainer, consultant, and author who has worked with various startups architecting data science, business intelligence, storage, open-source stack support, search and high availability.

Mike Driscoll

He has been using Python since April 2006. Writing about Python @mousevspython @realpython. He used to blog for the Python Software Foundation from time to time.

Author of multiple books including Python 101.

Trey Hunner

@treyhunner on X
@treyhunner@mastodon.social on the Fediverse

He is a Python team trainer. He creates ah-ha moments in Python with @PythonMorsels.

Kátia Nakamura

@djangoproject #DSF Board member. Django Specialist. @PyConBlkn @djangogirls Organizer. Sr. Framework Engineer @flydotio.

Ernesto Arbitrio

🐍 python addicted, father, son, @pyconit. Senior backend engineer at @YouGov. crunch.io.

One of the best Pythonistas out there. He cares a lot about writing good, clean and testable code. VP of Python Italia.

You’ll love Ernesto ❤️

Patrick Loeber

@patloeber on X

He is a software engineer with a big YouTube channel 200K+. He will help you to learn Python and Machine Learning.

Reuven M. Lerner

@reuvenmlerner on X

Helping you become more confident with Python and Pandas.

Will McGugan

CEO / Founder of Textualize.io

Anna Ravenscroft

On Linkedin

Experienced speaker and trainer, with diverse background developing curricula for church, regional transit, and disaster preparedness; developing web applications for therapy, learning, and fitness; writing technical books (Python in a Nutshell), articles and presentations; active member of Open Source community; skilled at translating between IT professionals and end users.

Sebastián Ramírez — a.k.a. tiangolo

He created FastAPI, Typer and a bunch of other open-source projects.

Sanskar Jethi

Creator of Robyn, a high-performance Python framework with a Rust runtime, and Starfyre, a reactive SSR Python Web Framework for Front-End Applications.