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Victor Stinner: Contact Me
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I am paid by Red Hat to maintain Python upstream and downstream (RHEL, CentOS,
Fedora & Software collections). They also cover the cost of travels to Pycon US
and EuroPython: meeting people is as important if not more than code. :ref:`My
contributions to Python <python-contrib>`.

Contact me
==========

* Email: victor.stinner@gmail.com
* IRC: my nickname is **vstinner** on `Freenode <https://freenode.net/>`_,
  I'm usually connected to #python-fr and #python-dev. Previously, I used
  the nick **haypo**.


Public profiles
===============

- `Twitter account <https://twitter.com/VictorStinner>`_
- `Github profile <http://github.com/vstinner/>`_
- `Bitbucket profile <https://bitbucket.org/vstinner/>`_
- `Flickr profile (photos) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/haypo/>`_
- `Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/~victor-stinner>`_
- `SpeakerHub <https://speakerhub.com/speaker/victor-stinner>`_

See also Victor Stinner in `Python Core Developer Motivations and Affiliations
<https://devguide.python.org/motivations/#published-entries>`_.

Note for myself: see also `gravatar.com <https://en.gravatar.com/>`_
(ex: used by Fedora Pagure).


Code statistics
===============

- `My profile on Open HUB: statistics on programming
  <https://www.openhub.net/accounts/haypo>`_


My projects and talks
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See the pages of :ref:`my projects <projects>` and :ref:`my talks <talks>`.


About me
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* Job Title at Red Hat: Senior Software Engineer
* Twitter: "Opensource Python Hacker"
* Pycon US 2014: Python core developer since 2010, I'm the author of various
  Python applications and libraries Python. See my profile on `Bitbucket
  <https://bitbucket.org/vstinner/>`_ and and `Github
  <http://github.com/vstinner/>`_.  I'm now working on OpenStack at `Enovance
  <http://www.enovance.com>`_ (Paris).
* FOSDEM 2013: Python code developer since 3 years, I love hacking free
  softwares to improve them, especially the Python project.
* techs.enovance.com: Victor is a Senior Engineer at eNovance. Python core
  developer since January 2010, he eats bugs for breakfast and reviews patches
  for dinner. On his free time, he shares code of open source projects on
  Bitbucket and Github.
* `PyDev of the Week: Victor Stinner
  <https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2017/02/27/pydev-of-the-week-victor-stinner/>`_
  (February, 2017)


Awards
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* In October 2017, Gregory P. Smith of Google nominated me for a `Google Open
  Source Peer Bonus
  <https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/10/more-open-source-peer-bonus-winners.html>`_
  for my work on CPython
* In April 2016, the OpenStack project nominated me for the `The Infinite
  Rebase Shield
  <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-community-contributor-awards-recognize-unsung-heroes/>`_
  Award for my work on porting OpenStack to Python 3:

    In the face of endless rebases, Stinner has tirelessly pushed OpenStack
    toward Python 3. I get the impression that it has been hard at times to get
    the necessary reviews for his Python 3 porting work; especially for the
    projects he’s not well known on, and I hate to see him discouraged. We’re
    lucky to have such a prolific expert leading the Python 3 porting effort
    for OpenStack, and I’d like him to know that his work is appreciated.

* In August 2015, I got a `PSF Community Service Award
  <https://www.python.org/community/awards/psf-awards/#august-2015>`_ for my
  work on CPython


Other people talking about me
=============================

LWN articles:

* `Using the limited C API for the Python stdlib?
  <https://lwn.net/Articles/944764/>`_ by Jake Edge
  (September, 2023)
* `CPython, C standards, and IEEE 754
  <https://lwn.net/Articles/886516/>`_ by Jake Edge
  (March, 2022)
* `Python and deprecations redux
  <https://lwn.net/Articles/883391/>`_ by Jake Edge
  (February, 2022)
* `Python discusses deprecations
  <https://lwn.net/Articles/877957/>`_ by Jake Edge
  (December, 2021)
* `Postponing some feature removals in Python 3.9
  <https://lwn.net/Articles/811369/>`_ by Jake Edge
  (February, 2020)
* `Mentoring and diversity for Python
  <https://lwn.net/Articles/757715/>`_, at 2018 Python Language Summit,
  by Jake Edge (June, 2018)
* `Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8 <https://lwn.net/Articles/741176/>`_
  by Jake Edge (December, 2017)
* `Rationalizing Python's APIs <https://lwn.net/Articles/727973/>`_
  by Jake Edge (July, 2017)
* `Making Python faster <https://lwn.net/Articles/725114/>`_
  by Jake Edge (June, 2017)
* `Keeping Python competitive <https://lwn.net/Articles/723949/>`_
  by Jake Edge (May, 2017)
* `Python's os.urandom() in the absence of entropy <https://lwn.net/Articles/693189/>`_
  by Jonathan Corbet (July, 2016)
* `The failure of pysandbox <https://lwn.net/Articles/574215/>`_
  by Jake Edge (November, 2013)
* `Fusil: a Python fuzzing library
  <https://lwn.net/Articles/322826/>`_
  by Jake Edge (March 2009)

Articles:

* Welcome to the Jungle: `Under Discussion: The Performance of Python
  <https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-performance-python>`_
  (May 2020), interview of Julien Danjou and me.
* `Ledende Python-coreudvikler: Eksplosion i popularitet har øget presset
  <https://pro.ing.dk/datatech/artikel/ledende-python-coreudvikler-eksplosion-i-popularitet-har-oeget-presset-5572>`_
  (February 26, 2020) by Magnus Boye: article in Danish.
* `Python Core Developer Mentorship
  <http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/05/python-core-developer-mentorship.html>`_
  (May 2019) by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Talk that I gave with Pablo Galindo
  Salgado and Cheryl Sabella at the Language Summit 2019 (during Pycon US
  2019).
* Interview in `Julien Danjou's book "Scaling Python"
  <https://scaling-python.com/>`_ (Dec 2017)
* Interview in `Julien Danjou's book "The Hacker's Guide to Python"
  <https://thehackerguidetopython.com/>`_ (May 2015)
* `8 Python developers that inspired me in 2017
  <https://hackernoon.com/8-python-developers-that-inspired-me-in-2017-85cb43b302a0>`_
  (Dec, 2017)
* `Understanding your benchmarks and easy tips for fixing them
  <https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/07/13/understanding-your-benchmarks-and-easy-tips-for-fixing-them/>`_
  (July, 2017)
* PythonBytes podcast.  `Episode #32: 8 ways to contribute to open source when
  you have no time
  <https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/32/8-ways-to-contribute-to-open-source-when-you-have-no-time>`_
  (July, 2017); "Michael #2: Keeping Python competitive" part
* `PyDev of the Week: Victor Stinner
  <https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2017/02/27/pydev-of-the-week-victor-stinner/>`_
  (February, 2017)
* Montreal Python User Group: Person of the Month:
  `Victor Stinner #MP42 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATncy-ws4NI>`_
  (December, 2013)
* `developer of note: Victor Stinner
  <http://tshepang.net/developer-of-note-victor-stinner>`_ (June 2012)
  by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

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   :alt: Victor Stinner