Aaron Bassett has lived in Ireland, Scotland, Hungary, The Netherlands, and America. He is a recovering Senior Software Engineer turned award-winning Developer Advocate. As a developer, public speaker, writer, and mentor; he spends most of his time making cool stuff and helping other people make unbelievably cool stuff 🔥🦄✨🚀

Aaron has been working online since 2005 and has always enjoyed sharing what he learned by organising and speaking at local meetups. He spoke at his first conference in 2013, and since then he's spoken at conferences on a range of topics all over the world. He has a passion for mentoring and has been involved with Social Innovation Camp UK, Social Innovation Camp Kosovo, Startup Weekend, Open Glasgow, DjangoGirls and global diversity CFP day.

👋 Hi, I'm Adam, and welcome to my site.

✍️ I'm an author and "solo consultant" working with Ansible, AWS, Django, and Python.

🦄 I'm a member of the Django project Technical Board (2.2, 3.0, and 3.1 release cycles), and a co-organizer of the The London Django Meetup.

🇬🇧 I'm based in London, UK.

✈️ I love to travel, especially to Django and Python conferences!

☕️ I drink tea, and especially enjoy a genmaicha.

I am a final year engineering student from KIIT University, India. I have an inveterate interest in Deep Learning and have been working on the same since the past year. Furthermore, I have presented at PYCON US 2020 on the same.
In my free time, I like to read and paint and learn new things.
I look forward to the conference, which I am sure would be a delight to be a part of.

is a creative technologist at ACMI using python, javascript and a stack of yaml files to bring some pretty amazing stuff to life.

Andrew is a Django core developer and contributor, a staff engineer at Robinhood, and has been behind several Django feature changes, including migrations and async support.

In his spare time, he likes to fly light aircraft, adventure around any nearby mountains, or try his hand at making a whole series of weird and wonderful hobby projects.

🙋🏻‍♂️ Hello, I'm Andrew Kim

I'm a client-side construction project manager living in Melbourne, Australia. I am a Django and Python hobbyist trying to code a software that I think would benefit my industry.

Twitter: @dearandrewkim

Website: www.dearandrewkim.com

Arna is a freelance data scientist and accidental designer on a mission to bring design thinking into data science, and create more responsible, ethical tech products, that make everyday life better. She is co-Director of RHoK Australia, an organisation that brings together social change makers and skilled volunteer technologists to co-develop open-source tech solutions to complex social problems. Previously she had a decade-long career as an astrophysicist – working primarily in the UK & USA on Hubble Space Telescope projects (the Universe is freakin' awesome), before returning to Australia and joining Swinburne University to build capability for data-intensive research, and lead initiatives around data science, data management & data policy, and tech skills training within academia.

Benno is the Program Chair of PyConline AU 2020.

I am a data-engineer with a specialisation in data viz. I've worked as a computational biologist and love exploring the visual impact of powerful models that explain some aspect of our world. I know python, javascript and graphics.

Brad Nielsen has been teaching IT at Marist College, Ashgrove, Queensland for the last 8 years. Before that he has worked in IT and online learning.

Carina C. Zona is a developer, advocate, and certified sex educator. She spends a lot of time thinking about the unexpected cultural effects of our decisions as programmers.

Her talk "Biometric Unsecurity" will expand on themes explored in her PyconAu 2015 keynote, "Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm", to delve into how biometrics and are misunderstood, misrepresented, and misused for a wide range of harms that include human rights abuses.

Carina is also the founder of CallbackWomen, which is on a mission to radically increase gender diversity at the podium of professional programmers’ conferences.

A Python performance tuning enthusiast tweaks ML platform for Cybersecurity company. I'm also a cybersecurity hobbyist poking websites on the Internet.

After having a career in data science, Cheuk now brings her knowledge in data and passion for the tech community into TerminusDB as the developer relations lead. Cheuk constantly contributes to the open-source community by giving free tutorials on Twitch and organize sprints to encourage diversity contributions.

Christopher Neugebauer is an Australian developer, speaker, and serial community conference organiser, who presently lives in the United States. He serves as a Director and Vice-Chair of the Python Software Foundation, and when All This is not currently preventing it, is co-organiser of the acclaimed North Bay Python conference, a boutique one-track conference run in a live music venue in Petaluma, California.

By day, Christopher works as an Engineering Manager at AlphaSights, where he uses Kotlin to build communications tools that put clients around the world in touch with knowledge they need.

Leigh is the Conference Director of PyCon AU, and is enthusiastic about well-designed APIs and dresses with pockets. She is more scared of you than you are of her.

Dawn is a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer who started out as a freelance developer, and realised that learning about infrastructure and release systems would save time and money for everyone involved. As well as accidental accessibility advocacy, Dawn is on the organising team for the Melbourne AWS Programming and Tools meetup, and can regularly be found sharing knowledge within the Melbourne cloud infrastructure and DevOps communities. Outside work, Dawn is an occasional author and kitchen alchemist.

Dawn is a queer woman of color, former project manager turned JavaScript and Python software engineer, WagtailCMS core team member and proud member of the djangocon community. She lives in Philadelphia, USA with her dog, Thelonious, and spends her time consulting with the Two Rock Software team, with her company Rugby Street Designs, and jumping on tech for social good projects.

Commonly referred to as ‘The Boy from Kolkata’ - Dipam is a senior-year student pursuing Electronics and Telecommunication from KIIT University, India. He has previously presented at three PyCons-

(1) PyCon USA 2019 (Cleveland, Ohio) [Speaker Profile]

(2) PyCon India 2019 (Chennai, India) [Speaker Profile]

(3) PyCon USA 2020 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [Speaker Profile]

Currently, he is an incoming Research Assitant at Stanford Medicine and will be working on areas of Radiology and Pain operating from the city of California.

He has previously worked in labs at Georgia Institute of Technology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo and IIT Bombay in various roles and capacities.

Having always been fascinated by the wonders one can do using Python, his periphery of interest lies in Biomedical-Imaging and NLP. He spends his days toying around with Machine-Learning models and fine-tuning Neural Nets when he is not eating, raconteuring or engaging in a lively debate about Geopolitics or Football!

Tania is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Microsoft with vast experience in academic research and industrial environments. Her main areas of expertise are within data-intensive applications, scientific computing, and machine learning. She has conducted extensive work on the improvement of processes, reproducibility and transparency in research, data science and artificial intelligence.
She is passionate about mentoring, open-source, and its community and is involved in a number of initiatives aimed to build more diverse and inclusive communities. She is also a contributor, maintainer, and developer of a number of open-source projects and the Founder of Pyladies NorthWest.

Elena cares deeply about Python and the community. Elena has been using python since 2005ish and has been coding the web for money for a while longer than that. She moonlights in computer science at ANU, she's proudly part of the CPUG organising team, she's a member of the Python Software Foundation (which we all should be! https://www.python.org/psf/membership/ ) and an elected member of the Django Software Foundation. Through happy coincidences she is both a founding PyLady and a founding DjangoGirl and has tried to do her best in both these organisations. She's spent more time with tabulated data than a sane person should; she watched the Ed Finkler talk with the same title as this talk a couple of years ago and it really did. She is a Neo4j certified professional.

Evan is a passionate 5th year Computer Science & Maths Student and Tutor at UNSW.

When he's not thinking about security, informatics, or giving talks at conferences, you'll find him running the Security Society of UNSW, nomming on subway cookies, or chasing bunny rabbits.

Python Software Foundation 2017 Fellow Member. Fernando is a Professor at FATEC São José dos Campos and loves teaching. He developed projects for Software Express, Cobra Technology, Credicard Mastercard, PwC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and ITAÚ Bank Boston. His interests are Python, Business Analytics, NoSQL. He is creator of the first brazilian MOOC to teach programming "Python for Zombies" with 120k students.

A few months into her new role as Head of AI & Data at Whispir, Fiona is more interested than ever in practicing ethical AI. Fiona is designed to be simple and dependable, just like her namesake https://pypi.org/project/Fiona/

I run the Education business unit at City Network, and help people learn to use, understand, and deploy OpenStack. Together with my Education team I run academy.citycloud.com, a learning platform based on the open source Open edX software stack. I've worked exclusively with open source software since about 2002. I ran hastexo, a small professional services company specializing in OpenStack, Ceph, and Open edX, until our acquisition by City Network in October 2017. I have presented at several OpenStack/OpenInfra Summits, LinuxCnns, linux.conf.au's, OSCONs, and numerous other conferences and meetups

I have delivered talks at SciPy India, PyCon FR, PyCon HK and JuliaCon. I use Python extensively for teaching and research. My major work includes using Python to develop prototypes in the field of Cyber Security. I lead PyData Belagavi and OWASP Belagavi chapters. I love to mentor students and volunteer at Free and Open Source events.

Gala is head of analytics at Neighbourlytics, a startup in the urban tech space trying to help those in the city-making space to deliver better economic and social value in communities.
She is passionate about elevating the voices of those who are marginalised and spends her "free" time reading/ranting about intersectional feminism, questioning and planting seeds of thought into those helping maintain the status quo, and trying to be an overall more empathetic and better human.

Genevieve Buckley is a scientist and programmer based in Melbourne Australia. She builds software tools for scientific discovery. Her interests include deep learning, automated analysis, and contributing to open source projects. She has a wealth of professional experience with image processing and analysis, spanning x-ray imaging, fluorescence microscopy, and electron beam microscopy. She is a maintainer for the dask-image project.

Greg is a creative technology leader, strategist and maker who has been working with Python since 2007. As Chief Technology Officer at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and CEO at the Interaction Consortium, Greg is on a quest to bring vision, ambition and generosity to diverse teams practising at the forefronts of technology and culture.

Heidi is a developer advocate with LaunchDarkly. She delights in working at the intersection of usability, risk reduction, and cutting-edge technology. One of her favorite hobbies is talking to developers about things they already knew but had never thought of that way before. She sews all her conference dresses so that she's sure there is a pocket for the mic.

I am a final year masters student in the Department of Physics, from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. My specialization is in Condensed Matter Physics and interests lie in Computational Physics, Open Source Software Projects, Lattice Theory, Game Theory, logic, and Quantum Computing. I code mainly in Python and R

I'm an engineer from Newcastle Australia, very passionate about open source software and data science. Always looking for new ideas to try and develop!

I write a weekly blog on technology, programming and more over at https://jackmckew.dev/.

You can also find me on:

https://github.com/JackMcKew

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-mckew/

https://twitter.com/Jac_McQ

Data Scientist and Software Engineer working in the field of Data Science and ML since the last 3+ years

Jakub is a machine learning engineer at a 4-person startup. He enjoys statistics, musicals, and teaching computer science.

An Engineer and software developer, James is a senior analytics engineer and the tech-lead of the Data Processing team at Resolution Systems. He has spent the past two years building out and transitioning the team from a MATLAB monolith to a Python analysis pipeline.

Jeremy is a Systems Engineer with a background in industrial control systems. When he is not sitting at the back of PyconAU recording talk videos, he is busy trying to find a way to use python to automate the boring bits of his life.

Julien is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google Sydney, from 2011 to 2018 he worked on Google's production networks, focusing on Internet routing & interconnection. When not at work he does things like designing custom embedded Linux machines & modernising frequency distribution systems.

He is also the current Secretary of Linux Australia, the parent organisation for PyCon AU.

Working with Python for around 5 years.

Likes text processing.

Github: https://github.com/ju-sh

Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/5375464/j-s

Kathy Reid works at the intersection of open source, emerging technologies and the communities that bring them to life. She has twenty years' experience in development, developer and technical leadership and management roles across education and emerging technology.

She is currently with Mozilla's Voice team, and is doing a PhD with ANU's 3A Institute on how open voice technology goes to scale.

Katie has been a professional developer for more than 10 years, jumping through ecosystems from a giant Java-writing company (Google) to a tiny Python-based company (Grok Learning) to a Microsoft and .NET company (Campaign Monitor). She's also worked and volunteered in education and helped a lot of rookie coders pull together their first hello world programs, websites and larger projects.

Katie (@glasnt) has worn many different hats over the years. She has been a software developer for many languages, systems administrator for multiple operating systems, and speaker on many different topics.

She is a PSF Fellow, former director of the Django Software Foundation, and co-organised DjangoCon AU 2017.

When she’s not changing the world, she enjoys cooking, making tapestries, and seeing just how well various application stacks handle emoji.

I am currently studying Complex Systems to learn how disastrous societies emerge from well meaning people. I am looking deeply at the Federal Elections Commission data to understand how political contributions spread throughout networks of people and political committees. In general, I hope to figure out how to turn large scale public agreement for change into systemic improvements.

During the work day I teach students and teachers how to understand the data, algorithms and the digital systems in the world around them. Including creating virtual environments for students to explore hacking in an ethically and technically safe way and designing curricula for students to learn the fundamentals of the web, APIs and team based software projects.

Lilly Ryan is a historian-turned-hacker. In addition to her day job discovering vulnerabilities in web applications, Lilly is an erstwhile Python developer and serves on the board of Digital Rights Watch. She writes and speaks internationally about facial recognition, social identities after death, teamwork, and the telegraph.

Dr Linda McIver is the Founder and Executive Director of the Australian Data Science Education Institute (ADSEI), a registered charity dedicated to ensuring that all Australian students have the chance to learn Data Science and Data Literacy skills in the context of authentic projects with real impact. Linda has a PhD in Computer Science Education, and extensive experience teaching at both tertiary and secondary levels. Through ADSEI, Linda now creates engaging Data Science Projects to empower students to use tech & data science skills to make positive change in their own communities.

Dr Lizzie Silver is a data scientist at Silverpond, an AI company based in Melbourne, Australia. She did her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University on methods for learning the structure of causal models. She was a Data Science for Social Good fellow in 2015, served on the Random Hacks of Kindness committee for two years, and is a member of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

I have been using Django for 11 years, since I fell in love with the framework back in 2009, while I was taking a web development class in college. Now a member of the Django Software Foundation, co-creator and maintainer of django-pgschemas and django-unmigrate, and contributor of django-tenants.

Former professor of Logics and Programming at the University of Holguín. I currently teach Biblical studies in my local Methodist church.

Lucie is a professional activist and human rights researcher. She has spent the last five years working for Access Now, an international digital rights ngo working on defending and extending the rights of users at risk. There she campaigned for strong encryption, against the proliferation of targeted-spyware, and for strong government policies which empower and support individual rights and liberties in the online world. She has a background in international relations and security studies, and she's never lived in any city longer than 4 years.

Lydia is a data wrangler who brings a diverse background to understanding what numbers tell us about the world. She joined the Data and Analytics team at Neighbourlytics after completing a data science bootcamp last year. Prior to that she provided training and coaching for data-driven change in STEM education, and led rock climbing and kayaking adventures for people of diverse backgrounds and abilities, among other bits and pieces.

Maalvika is a junior at Olin College, engineer, designer, published writer, and researcher currently working in the SF Bay Area. Through her work, she has grown increasingly enthusiastic about creative problem-solving, using data as a storytelling tool, data justice and governance, and socially-aware algorithm design. She hopes to continue understanding technology through an anthropological lens, creating ethical, sustainable solutions, and using her skill set to do social good.

Mariatta is a Python Core Developer, a software engineer at Zapier, Vancouver PyLadies co-organizer, and one of the founding members of the PyCascades conference. She moved to Canada almost two decades ago, and now lives in Vancouver with her husband and two children. In her free time, she contributes to open source, builds GitHub bots, fixes typos, and likes to tell you about f-strings. Her favorite emoji is :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:.

Markus Holtermann works as a back-end and infrastructure engineer at Crate.io. He has been a Django contributor since 2014. He is a member of the Django security and operations team as well as an organizer of DjangoCon conferences. Markus has been a project lead at the German ubuntuusers.de community support platform where he discovered Python and Django in 2010.

Nick is a freelance software consultant from Melbourne, Australia.

https://nick.zoic.org/

Social Scientist at ThoughtWorks, and a more-than-interested bystander in the world of AI and Machine Learning. Co-host of AI Australia, plus the Press 2 For More Information podcast (a podcast with quite a lot of data folk), Chair of Lean Enterprise Australia, and supporter of charities Orange Sky Laundry and Flying Robot School. In spare time, a punk guitarist, and host of the annual Battle of the Agile Bands. Currently writing a book titled SuperProductive, while wishing he was.

Hi, I'm Ninz.

I am a software engineer in the Philippines. I've worked with several startups in the past and currently working at Hacarus(focus on backend and machine learning integration).

I am currently taking my Masters degree in Computer Science here in the Philippines. My interests are Astronomy, Physics and Cooking :P

Noah Kantrowitz is a web developer turned infrastructure automation enthusiast, and all around engineering rabble-rouser. By day he runs infrastructure at Geomagical/IKEA and by night he makes candy and stickers. He is an active member of the DevOps community, and enjoys merge commits, cat pictures, and beards.

Patrick Robotham is Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Nimble.

Peter's career spans a few decades in telecommunications and local government as a technical specialist and then into management. Now contract IT Project Manager and freelance Python programmer in Melbourne.

Peter likes to tinker with electronics and interfacing microcontrollers with the real world (mainly MicroPython) and 'upcycle' obsolete computer hardware into both jewelry and art.

Renee Noble is the National Director of the Girls’ Programming Network (GPN) and a Software Developer at edtech Company Grok Learning.

Having had no exposure to programming until stumbling upon it while studying at Sydney University, she was quick to add a Computer Science major to her Chemical Engineering and Chemistry pursuits. Given this late introduction to tech, Renee’s passion is making coding education exciting and accessible to everyone. She strives to create scalable content and methods for including girls, women, and people from other underrepresented gender groups.

In her time at the helm of GPN Renee has taken what was a small single site operation, to providing 1400 girls a year with free programming workshops. Having already spread the program to six sites around Australia, more cities lining up to join the GPN community. The programs huge popularity and impact have seen Renee featured amongst the AFR’s 100 Women of Influence, Women’s Weekly’s “Women of the Future”, and Create magazine's “10 Emerging Women of Engineering”.

Richard's been doing this software development thing for quite some time and maybe one day he might feel like he's got a real handle on it.

After completing a B.Math and B.CompSci through University of Newcastle, Riley undertook a PhD in Math to pursue his two major interests at the time; integer programming, and remaining a student for as long as possible. Riley is currently employed at Hunter Valley Coal Chain Coordinator (HVCCC) in the Strategic Planning Team (SPT), which indulges his appetite for all things Operations Research (OR), and acronyms. His role at HVCCC has involved applying his skills to the development of simulation models, metaheuristics, and tools for data analysis.

Rory works in the Developer Relations team at Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Advocate. Cloud Advocates use their deep research skills to help professional cloud developers discover and successfully use Microsoft’s platforms.
A seasoned speaker whose talks are both meaningful and humorous, Rory travels around the world empowering developers to achieve more.

I am a technology tinkerer who loves to make things with flashy lights and/or makes sounds. Lifelong Kindergartener and forever learner.

Australian software developer and amateur rocket scientist. They enjoy cats, working on their personal software and hardware projects, designing large rockets on paper, launching small rockets in real life, everything space, playing games of all kinds, and tinkering with their 3D Printer.

Love speed and anything that can speed up my data analysis and automation. Contributor to the Pyjanitor and Pydatatable libraries. Tennis lover. Wicked forehand. :)

Professional meme connoisseur and part-time developer

I’m an Engineering Manager at Alpha Health. I love building software that helps patients have a better experience with healthcare.

I have a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University. Outside of software, I enjoy sports, meditation, and reading.

Sarah Levins is a Data and AI consultant at Empired, and an alumni of the She Codes Plus program. She brings over 6 years experience as a Travel Agent with her into her first tech role, and loves creating personalised solutions to interesting problems.

Python was one of the first programming languages she learned, and loves how accessible it makes coding. She is an active mentor for beginners, and volunteers at workshop events.

In her spare time, Sarah runs long distances while listening to showtunes, or watches Thor movies with her cat.

I am a forensic engineer and I work with business, government and the legal sector to investigate and resolve complex issues that typically require a systems approach.

I have acted as an expert witness in numerous proceedings involving a wide range of constructed facilities. I am a director of the Society of Construction Law Australia and a member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre's Panel of Experts.

In 2020 I completed the Brady Review, an investigation into the causes of fatalities in the mining industry in Queensland, Australia. This review analysed 20 years of incident and fatality information, was data driven, and culminated in 11 recommendations for both industry and the regulator on how to lower the fatality and incident rate.

Shivashis Padhi is a senior, majoring Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India.

With ~3 years of experience as a student software developer he has worked with multiple organizations(Python Software Foundation - GSoC'20, Delta Force), large and small scale startups(Grofers, Flytbase Labs, Gmetri), he lives by a simple policy, 'learn and build stuff to make the world a better place'. He's currently an intern with the Data Engineering team at Grofers building geospatial data-management tools. He spends some time contributing to MSS with an amazing set of people.

He also gave his first ever technical talk, about maps and Python during PyCon India'19.

Keeping work aside, he's a big fan of earth, computers, maps, classical music from different cultures, and history.

It's my first time giving a talk at a conference, what do I put here? I suppose I should mention:
- COMP1511 Tutor @ UNSW
- Computer Science Student @ UNSW
- Love to volunteer - currently actively involved in 3 running societies @ UNSW

I've been playing with computers for quite some time, and have had the pleasure of teaching a wide ranges of year-groups a wide ranges of subjects - from teaching 7 year olds how to add, to 24 year olds writing their first "Hello World" program

Shubh is a tenured data scientist/ Machine learning engineer who has supported data based product development and problem solving across geographies and domains.Away from work, he spends his time going on Long runs and reading a blend of fictional and non-fictional books.

Enjoys equality, software, film, electronics & space. Works for ACMI & New Internationalist magazine. Founding member of MOD. and Hackerspace Adelaide.

Simon is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data.

Datasette is based on Simon's experiences working as a data journalist at the UK's Guardian newspaper.

Simon is also a co-creator of the Django web framework. He recently completed the JSK Fellowship program at Stanford.

https://simonwillison.net/ - @simonw

I am mathematical physicist and a junior lecturer for the Learn Programming Academy. I took up Python programming during my degree independently of my studies because it seemed like a good idea at the time, and never looked back. My interests include procedural generation, games development, and blockchain. Don't ask me about blockchain because I'm still learning.

Tennessee is an experienced developer, with an enthusiasm for Open Source, Python and technology.

Thomas is a lapsed web developer turned contractor working in software defined RADAR, an advocate of functional software design, and a lover of curly bois.
He's perpetually chasing the next yak to shave, dragging along all who will listen, and having a blast learning new things.

Tish is an expert at building software for large-scale data processing particularly satellite and airborne sensor data. He has been awarded innovation and commercialization award for building high resolution 3D city capture product and has worked for various space agencies including NASA, scientific research organizations and in commercial research. Tisham originally grew up in Kenya and left for his studies, eventually returning to work on a logistics startup and other projects. Tish is a regular speaker at open-source technology conferences addressing the intersection of software design and hardware design. Currently he wrangles containers and Kubernetes clusters for Digital Earth Australia and Africa making analysis ready satellite imagery accessible to everyone.

Tom is a developer, systems architect, DevOps, and security consultant based in Wellington, New Zealand. His passion is building -- and helping developers to build -- solid, robust, and maintainable systems.

Tom writes words that control computers to tell other computers to build FAKE computers that run on DIFFERENT computers.

Working on open source tools. Recurse Center F1 '20.

Vladislav is a former startup founder, machine learning enthusiast and DevOps geek. When not writing new articles about Docker, Django and Kubernetes over at https://vsupalov.com, he helps companies to master Kubernetes and unblock their tech teams and reclaim productivity lost to broken Docker workflows.

Xin is a machine learning engineer at Eliiza, who has been immersing in the joy of machine learning for about 5 years now. She has worked in the area that helps the machine see (computer vision), the area that helps the machine hear (speech audio) and the area that helps the machine understand words (natural language processing).

Yaakov is a Senior Developer at WiseTech Global, and has an unfortunate habit of sticking his nose in all the wrong places. He has been writing and breaking code for many years, and has reverse-engineered everything from mobile apps to the Steam client. In his spare time he can often be observed roving around Sydney trying to catch Pokémon staying at home.

I'm a researcher at the Australian National University, and maintain a number of packages - mostly focussed on testing. When not at my desk grumbling about the buggy state of software, I can be found with a book, a block of chocolate, and a plan to go somewhere out of phone range for a walk.