Marc-André Lemburg
I am the CEO and founder of eGenix.com, a Python experts, project, product and consulting company based in Germany, with an international customer base.
Python
My work with and for Python started in 1994. In 1997, I began writing a web application server and as part of this, the mx Extensions, a popular set of Python extensions, including the open-source mxDateTime, mxTextTools and the commercial mxODBC, all of which are now distributed and maintained through eGenix.com. In the same year, I became Python Core Developer and in 1999/2000 designed the Unicode support for Python, which I then maintained for more than a decade.
Python community
I am also involved in several Python community organizations. I am a founding member and Fellow of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and have been on the PSF Board for many years. In 2002 and 2003, I co-organized the first EuroPython conferences in Charleroi, Belgium and later became EuroPython Society (EPS) board member and chair. In 2011, I helped kickstart the German PyCon DE conference series. In 2012, I co-founded the Python Meeting Düsseldorf (PyDDF), a local Python meeting in Düsseldorf, together with Charlie Clark.
You can find me regularly giving talks at Python conferences, starting with the first European Python conference in 2001, the “European Python Meeting“ at LSM 2001 in Bordeaux, where I gave a talk on Python and Unicode.
Bio
After having grown up in Germany and the US, I earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Düsseldorf and have since been working as consultant and later as CEO and chief architect of eGenix.com.
More information
More information is available on the other menu tabs of this blog, the executive summary for a quick overview of my Python activities, my skills page, professional experience and education.