Brandon Rhodes
Brandon Rhodes is best known as a popular speaker at Python conferences, but his open source projects include C, Go, and even bits of JavaScript. His still maintains the old PyEphem astronomy module he wrote in the 1990s, but it’s his modern Skyfield astronomy library that is most popular with Python programmers who want to determine the positions of planets, comets, and satellites. His ‘Python Patterns’ web site gives programmers advice about which of the classic design patterns to use in Python and which to avoid. When away from the keyboard, he loves the outdoors and backpacking, for which his favorite destination is the Grand Canyon.