Brett Slatkin has been programming with Python professionally for the past 19 years. He currently works as a principal software engineer in the Office of the CTO at Google, developing technology strategies and rapid prototypes.
His prior experience includes founding Google Surveys, an internal startup for collecting machine learning and market research data sets; launching Google App Engine, the company’s first cloud computing product; scaling Google’s A/B experimentation products to billions of users; co-creating PubSubHubbub, the W3C standard for real-time RSS feeds; and making various contributions to open source projects.
Brett earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York. Outside of his day job, he enjoys playing piano, surfing, and spending time with his family. He lives in California. You can find him online at https://onebigfluke.com.