Chapter 10. Jessica McKellar
Jessica McKellar is an American software engineer and entrepreneur. She is a maintainer for several open source projects and the co-author of Twisted Network Programming Essentials. Jessica is a former director of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and a former organizer of the Boston Python User Group. She is passionate about growing the Python community and serves as the diversity outreach chair for PyCon North America.
Jessica is the founder and CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm which is powered by software. Previously, she was the founder and VP of engineering for Zulip, a real-time collaboration start-up which Dropbox acquired.
Discussion themes: Python and activism, the PSF, Twisted.
Catch up with Jessica McKellar here: @jessicamckella
Mike Driscoll: Could you give a little background about yourself?
Jessica McKellar: I'm an entrepreneur, software engineer, and open source developer currently living in San Francisco.
I am extremely proud...