Chapter 11. Tarek Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé is a French Python developer and author. Past roles have included R&D developer at Nuxeo and software engineer at Mozilla. Today Tarek is a staff application engineer at Mozilla, where he creates tools for developers. He has written several Python books, in both English and French, including Expert Python Programming and Python Microservices Development. Tarek is the founder of Afpy, a French Python user group and has delivered talks at both PyCon and EuroPython. He regularly contributes to open source Python projects.

Discussion themes: AI, v2.7/v3.x, Afpy.

Catch up with Tarek Ziadé here: @tarek_ziade

Mike Driscoll: Why did you become a programmer?

Tarek Ziadé: In hindsight, I became a programmer for two reasons: to become the god of my little world and to impress my mom, who is a programmer as well.

When I was six years old, I was at a fair with my mom. There was a giant paper sheet on the floor, with a turtle that...