Yury Selivanov

I'm a Python core developer since 2013 and CEO/co-founder of EdgeDB.

As part of my core development career I authored 8 PEPs, most notably the one that added async/await syntax to Python. I've been the lead maintainer of asyncio for a few years, and today I still assist Guido and the core team with asyncio maintenance and direction.

EdgeDB, the company that I co-founded, works on implementing a next generation relational database, we can call it SQL 2.0. A bulk of its systems are written in Python, and my experience of building this complex codebase channels into my CPython contributions. This talk is a direct result of this practice: we need to optimize EdgeDB to run in the cloud in the most cost-effective way, and reducing the memory pressure is key.

I've a lot of experience delivering talks at conferences, including PyCon US, PyCon Canada, EuroPython, and a few others. I've been invited to a number of podcasts over the past few years. I'm continuously improving my presentation skills and plan this PyCon US talk (if accepted) to be the best I've ever delivered.