David Mertz

David served as Director and committee chairs for the PSF. He wrote the widelyread column, Python books, and gave keynotes at PyCon-India, PyCon-UK,PyCon-ZA, PyCon Belarus, PyCon Cuba, and PyData SF.Before Anaconda, David worked for D. E. Shaw Research to build the world'sfastest supercomputer for performing molecular dynamics. He is pleased Pythonhas become the default high-level language for most scientific computingprojects.