Django Chat William Vincent and Carlton Gibson

Çağıl is a Lead Backend Engineer at Kraken Tech, Django Software Foundation Vice President, and Django London Meetup co-organizer. We discuss her background studying computer science in Turkey, organizing DjangoGirls and Python events in Istanbul, and her current work today.

Simon is a longstanding contributor to Django and a member of the Steering Council and the Security Team. We discuss his current work at Zapier, type hints, django-ninja vs Django REST Framework, and thoughts on the future of Django.

Jacob is a co-creator of Django. We discuss Django’s early design decisions, community consensus vs the BDFL approach, HTMX, deployment, and more.

Deb is the Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation and a longtime member of open-source communities. We discuss the work of an executive director, the PSF’s new Developers-in-Residence, recent legislative efforts, and how software nonprofits function day to day.

Harout and Andrew are the engineers behind pinplanet, a free Django-based mobile app to pin where you’ve been. We discuss moving from a PWA to native iOS, Kotlin for Android, testing and performance challenges along the way, type hints, and more.

Kátia is a Board Member of the Django Software Foundation and a Framework Engineer at Fly.io. We discuss her academic background in Brazil, moving to Europe to study and work, and rotating between individual contributor and manager roles.