Barry Warsaw has been a core Python developer since 1994, and is currently employed as a Principle System Software Engineer at NVIDIA where he works on Wheel-Next and other Python-focused initiatives, both inside the company and in the Open Source community. He has served as Release Manager and Python Steering Council member in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, and 2025. He’s both organized and participated in the annual Python Language Summit at PyCon US. He was the GNU Mailman and Jython/JPython project leader at various times, and in the early days of Python served as postmaster, webmaster, and more.
Barry has spoken at Pycon many times in the past:
- 2012 - GNU Mailman 3
- 2016 - Kiwi PyCon Keynote - Tai Chi Principles for Mindful Programmers
- 2017 - aiosmtpd - A better asyncio based SMTP server
- 2018 - Get your resources faster, with importlib.resources
- Various Steering Council Keynote sessions