Andy Miller is CTO at Hamilton Rock and runs Software Crafts, a Django consultancy based in Cambridge, UK. He works with small businesses and startups on a fractional basis, helping them build and ship Django applications. Andy built django-prodserver to bring production process management into the familiar manage.py interface—making deployment a little less daunting for everyone. He's an active contributor to Django and its community, and writes about Django, API design, and software development on his blog. This is his first full-length conference talk, following a lightning talk at DjangoCon EU 2025.
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- Improving One of Django's Most Used APIs — And It's Not the One You're Thinking Of
I am a software developer from London who works with Python and Django professionally, as well as maintaining several open source Python and Django web services related to caving and amateur radio.
Other than that, I have a lot of enthusiasm for linux system administration and platform engineering, and I enjoy a bit of TypeScript and Rust every now and then.
Please visit me at my personal site or LinkedIn.
- Digitising Historical Caving Data with Python and Django
Carlton is a former Django Fellow and creator and/or maintainer of multiple open-source projects in the Django ecosystem. He is also the co-host of the Django Chat podcast.
- Static Islands, Dynamic Sea
Creator of https://ccbv.co.uk/, django-subatomic, django-schema-graph, django-sansdb, django-integrity. See https://meshy.co.uk/
- Where did it all `BEGIN;`?
I am a senior developer struggling with ADHD always keen on learning new things and working to make other people's lives simpler. I currently work as a Python/Django independent contractor for the French governement. In the past I also occupied other positions such as Java, web, full-stack developer, devops, and even sys admin for a while. I aslo contribute to a lot of things as I can't seem to be able to focus on one.
https://github.com/christophehenry
https://blog.christophe-henry.dev/
- Django templates on the frontend?
I am a Director of Engineering at Canonical in Engineering Excellence. My work is concerned with engineering practice leadership and transformation.
I enjoy helping organise community conferences for Python and Django. That includes multiple editions of DjangoCon Europe, as well as the first editions of PyCon Africa and DjangoCon Africa.
I also enjoy helping people and open-source projects improve their documentation.
- How to understand the employer's perspective when you apply for a job
- Body of knowledge
Long-time pythonista, PSF & DSF member, Django fan, electronics enthusiast, author of django-admin-deux and other OSS libraries
I am from Belgium and have been involved in open-source at different levels for about 20 years. I am a member of the Django Steering Council for the 6.x cycle.
One of the things I enjoy the most is sharing knowledge with others. And this is why I enjoy writing tutorials as well as giving talks and workshops.
- Is it time for a Django Admin rewrite? If so, how?
- Django-Admin-Deux: From First Steps to Custom Plugins
Georgios Poulos holds an MSc in Information Systems and works as an IT expert at the Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum. Over the past six years, he has designed and developed multiple production-grade Django applications used across the public sector. His work focuses on workflow automation, security, and building sustainable, high-impact systems under real-world organizational constraints.
- ATLAS: Building a Zero‑Budget IT Service Management Platform with Django in the Public Sector
I'm a senior backend engineer at authentik from Budapest, Hungary. My recent work has been focused on authorization, specifically RBAC and ABAC. I promote free software and I am an avid self-hoster. I have a background in mathematics.
- Role-based access control in Django - How we forked Guardian
Haki Benita is a software developer and a technical lead. He lived through several hype cycles but he's still standing! Haki built multiple successful products that are used by millions of users every month but he doesn't like to brag about it...
Haki takes special interest in databases, web development, software design and performance tuning and he writes about it at hakibenita.com
- Django from the trenches: Advanced Indexing and Concurrency in Django and PostgreSQL
- Reliable Django Signals
I used to call myself a dual-class sysadmin/developer but lately (+10 years) it's mostly been dev, and mostly backend. Been dabbling with Python since 1.5, and side-eyeing Django forms since 2008. I work for Norway's NREN (basically, the academic internet backbone), Sikt, in a team that open sources All! its! things!
- Django forms in the age of HTMx: the single field form
Django has been an integral part of my journey as a developer from my training in music composition and technology through to building open-source web applications. Django contributor since 2020, Django Fellow since 2025.
- Auto-prefetching with model field fetch modes in Django 6.1
Jake is many things:
- A Senior Systems Engineer @ Torchbox
- A member of the Django Security Team
- A member of the DSF
- A member of the Security and Core teams for Wagtail CMS
- An avid self-hoster
- Frequent blogger
A Jake of all trades, if you will
- Website: theorangeone.net
- Mastodon: @jake@theorangeone.net
- Bluesky: @theorangeone.net
- Scaling the database - using multiple databases with Django
Jochen Wersdörfer is a freelance software developer based in Düsseldorf, Germany, with more than 20 years of Python experience. He specializes in Django, data science, and machine learning, and works on systems where architecture must satisfy strict operational constraints. He previously spoke at DjangoCon Europe 2021 and FOSDEM 2025, and co-hosts the German Python Podcast. He works across web and desktop Django deployments, focusing on reliability and maintainability in production environments. He maintains open-source projects including django-cast and regularly writes about practical Django architecture and operations.
- When SaaS Is Not Allowed: Shipping Django as a Desktop App
Seasoned Software Engineer that is currently leading a team in the Energy industry. Passionate about community building and increasing opportunities in IT for everyone.
- Improve your CV with help of your Django friends
Laura is a researcher and consultant at Bath Spa University, UK, with experience facilitating Open Space and participatory events across academic, charity and corporate settings. Her research into how presence, attention and perceived agency shape human interaction with non-human systems is published and recognised internationally. She is the founder and technical lead of Obwob, a feedback and impact PWA being piloting at this workshop, and advises on human-centred AI integration.
- Django and AI: A Community Conversation
Laís Carvalho is a Developer Advocate & Growth Marketing at Pydantic, where she works on Logfire and the Pydantic ecosystem. She previously championed Kedro at QuantumBlack (McKinsey) and Quansight. Her throughline: making complex developer tools feel approachable. She's currently pursuing a postgraduate in Innovation and Enterprise Development at Trinity College Dublin.
An EuroPython Society Fellow and 2025 PSF Community Service Award recipient, Laís has served on the boards of EuroPython and Python Ireland, and co-founded HumbleData — a nonprofit mentoring underrepresented minorities in Python and Data Science.
She advocates for monitoring tools that help developers sleep better at night and believes diverse teams build better systems. Outside of tech, you'll find her experimenting with watercolour painting or on an improv stage.
- Beyond print(): Observability to debug you Django apps
Loes Crama is a software engineer contributing to ESA's NewAthena mission at cosine measurement systems in Sassenheim, The Netherlands. She studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Leiden, The Netherlands, and graduated in 2021. In her current role, she develops data management systems supporting scientific and engineering operations in large research projects. Alongside software development, she works with scientific data across multiple systems, combining software engineering with data engineering and data science tasks as part of her day-to-day work.
- How Django is helping to build the biggest X-ray observatory to date
Django has been a part of my life for over 15 years. And again, in my current position as a software engineer it's the foundation of the job. While there have been times when I contributed to Django's code base regularly, these times have receded. However, I remain a member of Django's security and ops teams, which I've been on for almost a decade now.
- Oh, I Found a Security Issue
Marlene is a Senior Developer Advocate specializing in Python and AI at Microsoft, a computer scientist, keynote speaker and explorer. She is the current co-chair of the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) practitioner board, was the previous vice chair of the Python Software Foundation and led the first PyCon Africa.
- A Practical Guide To Agentic Coding For Django Developers
I'm a Python developer with over 10 years of experience building web applications and APIs. I co-organize PyGDA, a local Python meetup in Poland, and have experience as a Python trainer. In recent years, I've developed a growing interest in web application security and DevSecOps. When I'm not coding, you'll find me playing table tennis or chess.
- What's in your dependencies? Supply chain attacks on Python projects
I've been developing in Django since 2017, as part of the team that has built EG Probo, a property management platform with, as of 2026, approx. 300,000 users. I also do quite a bit of Elixir development. Oh, and I play and teach double-bass.
- Advanced ORM kung-fu for on-demand filtering, sorting, and summing 40 million financial transactions
Software engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in Python and web development. I've built scalable systems across industries (marketplaces, fantasy sports, cybersecurity) and geographies, with deep expertise in Django, distributed architectures, and cloud infrastructure.
When not coding, I advocate for protocols over platforms, explore federated internet technologies, and geek out on self-hosting. My non-tech passions include studying history , human migration and geopolitics.
- Django Task Workers in Subinterpreters: Single-Server Django Applications Without Process Overhead
I'm Paolo Melchiorre (aka paulox), a Python backend developer, Django contributor, and Python Software Foundation Fellow.
As a member of the Django Software Foundation, I serve also as a board member. Additionally, I'm a coach and organizer for Django Girls, and a navigator for the Djangonaut Space mentorship program.
In my community involvement, I organize PyCon Italia, have founded the local Python Pescara community, and am a member of the Python Italia association.
As a professional, I'm also a conference speaker, technical blogger at www.paulox.net, a GNU/Linux user, and a Free Software advocate. My academic background includes a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Bologna.
- AI-Assisted Contributions and Maintainer Load
Sam (he/him) is a staff software engineer at Kraken Tech. He used to work on billing and payments systems, but now spends most of his time working on project architecture, tooling, and developer enablement.
- Where did it all `BEGIN;`?
Diving deep on AI in the Django ecosystem - AI and developer experience, design principles and ethos, open source AI landscape.
I’m a volunteer & contributor @ Django Software Foundation, core team & product lead for Wagtail. Engineering @ Torchbox. Accessibility, AI, climate action. Find me on: Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, GitHub, thib.me.
- Django and AI: A Community Conversation
- llms.txt and Django
Tim has been a system administrator and, more recently, a Python/Django developer. He has particular interests in databases, performance, and incident management. He works for Kraken Technologies Australia, part of the Octopus Energy Group.
Photo: Mark Hawkins for PyCon UK (adapted); CC BY 2.0
- Partitioning very large tables with Django and PostgreSQL
I am a software engineer interested in scalable systems, cybersecurity, and software architecture. Currently working as a software engineer at Sentry, contributing to platform improvements, database optimizations, and our AI Agent observability products.
Previously I have co-founded a cybersecurity SaaS company focused on real-time infrastructure monitoring.
- Zero-Migration Encryption: Building Drop-in Encrypted Field in Django