Doug Hellmann

Doug Hellmann is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on OpenStack. He has been programming in Python since version 1.4, and has worked on a variety of Unix and non-Unix platforms for projects in fields such as mapping, medical news publishing, banking, and data center automation. In addition to his involvement with the OpenStack community, Doug is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and served as its Communications Director from 2010-2012. After a year as a regular columnist for Python Magazine, he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008-2009. Doug published the popular "Python Module of the Week" series on his blog. He lives in Athens, Georgia, USA with his wife and cats.