David Mertz, Ph.D.
David is Principal Software and Security Architect of Service Employees International Union, one of the largest and most progressive unions in the United States. He served as a Director of the Python Software Foundation and chair of a number of its committees for many years. He created the data science training program for Anaconda Inc. and was a senior trainer for them. Before that, he worked for 8 years with D. E. Shaw Research, who built the world's fastest, highly-specialized supercomputer for performing molecular dynamics.
David's columns, Charming Python and XML Matters, written in the 2000s, were the most widely read articles in the Python world. He has written 7 books in Python or adjacent topics for Manning, Packt, O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, and Lulu Press, and has given keynote addresses at numerous international programming conferences.
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Complex flow control decisions can be elegantly expressed as dispatch by function signatures.