EuroPython 2016

Marc-Andre Lemburg

Marc-Andre Lemburg
Tagline
Everything Python.
Website
www.egenix.com
Twitter
@malemburg
Technical interests
Databases, Performance, Community, Management, Development
Location
Düsseldorf, Germany
Company
eGenix.com Software GmbH
Job title
Senior Architect, CEO
Website
www.egenix.com
Compact biography

Marc-Andre is the CEO and founder of eGenix.com, a Python-focused project and consulting company based in Germany. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Düsseldorf.

His work with and for Python started in Winter 1993. In 1997, he became a Python Core Developer. He designed and implemented the Unicode support in Python and continued to maintain the Python Unicode implementation for more than a decade, after it first appeared in Python 2.0 in 2000.

Marc-Andre is a founding member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and has served on the PSF Board several times. He is also board member of the EuroPython Society (EPS) which organizes the EuroPython conference series and the author of the well-known mx Extensions, e.g. mxTextTools, mxDateTime and mxODBC, which are now distributed and maintained through eGenix.com.

Today Marc-Andre spends most of his time consulting and managing large-scale customer projects heavily relying on Python and databases. More infos are available on http://www.malemburg.com/.