Tom is a senior Python developer and technical lead for Catalyst IT, New Zealand's largest company specialising in open source technologies. Prior to that he worked as a developer and system administrator for the University of Otago Faculty of Medicine and as a Computer Science tutor for same. Tom was co-director of Kiwi PyCon 2014, New Zealand's national Python conference, and will be spending significant amounts of time trying to convince you all to fly to Christchurch, New Zealand for more Python fun at Kiwi PyCon 2015!