Chapter 4. Glyph Lefkowitz
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Glyph Lefkowitz is an American software engineer who has worked on numerous open source projects. Previous roles include senior software engineer at Apple, and today he works at Pilot.com, a bookkeeping service for start-ups. Glyph is the original founder of Twisted, a network programming framework written in Python. He continues to maintain Twisted and play an active role in the Twisted community. In 2009, Glyph was made a fellow of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). The PSF awarded Glyph its Community Service Award for contributions to the Python language in 2017.
Discussion themes: v2.7/v3.x, Python's future, diversity.
Catch up with Glyph Lefkowitz here: @glyph
Mike Driscoll: So how did you end up becoming a programmer?
Glyph Lefkowitz: Well, my programming path was somewhat circuitous. I started off programming as a kid, but I do not have the stereotypical story of learning BASIC, then Perl. There wasn't a linear progression, or...