Some potentially relevant facts about me:

• I've lectured mathematics and MATLAB at the University of Cape Town.
• I've worked in bioinformatics and radio astronomy.
• I've published some academic papers (and even a couple in vaguely respectable journals!)
• I have an undergraduate degree in physics and a masters degree in applied mathematics.
• I accidentally wrote a lot of games in pygame.
• In 2012 I started PyConZA (PyCon South Africa).
• I have a Python Community Service award (woot!).
• I currently lead a small data science team at a financial startup.