Noah Gift is a software engineer who lives in Atlanta, GA. He currently works for Racemi, as part of a team of people, developing a data center management system written completely in Python. He is currently co-authoring a book on "Python for Systems Administration", for O'Reilly. Noah also writes for Red Hat Magazine and IBM Developerworks. In a past life, Noah has worked in Film and Television for companies such as Sony Imageworks, and Disney Feature Animation.