The Bee Team¶
So who are the people behind BeeWare? Well, there's a huge group of contributors, but the project is managed by the Bee Team.
Current team members¶
Russell Keith-Magee¶
Dr Russell Keith-Magee is the founder of the BeeWare project. He joined the Django core team in 2006, and for 5 years, was President of the Django Software Foundation. He has been a member of the CPython core team since May 2024.
Russell is a Principal Software Engineer in the Open Source group at Anaconda (a BeeWare Gold sponsor).
Katie McLaughlin¶
Katie has worn many different hats over the years. They have previously been a software developer for many languages, systems administrator for multiple operating systems, and speaker on many different topics.
When they're not changing the world, they enjoy cooking, making tapestries, and seeing just how well various application stacks handle emoji.
Philip James¶
Philip writes code for computers and for humans. His first computing love is Python, but is too often forced to write JavaScript and Swift. When he's not writing code for money or for Open Source or for his own crazy projects, he gives talks at conferences. Philip lives in
Malcolm Smith¶
Malcolm is the creator of Chaquopy, which aims to make it as easy as possible to use Python in Android apps. With BeeWare, he's now looking forward to expanding that mission to all desktop and mobile platforms.
Malcolm is a Senior Software Engineer in the Open Source group at Anaconda (a BeeWare Gold sponsor).
Russell Martin¶
Russell is a tinkerer and aspiring creator. He fell in love with python years ago and wants to see apps built with it everywhere. If he isn't writing code, he's probably falling down a Wikipedia rabbit hole or playing sysadmin to his bloated home lab.
Charles Whittington¶
As a comic artist, machinist, welder, carpenter, and programmer, Charles has worn many hats (but more commonly sticks to a bandana). If they're not building theater sets for a living or chasing yaks ever downward through Toga and Travertino, they're probably building yet another shelving or other storage unit in their house.
Kattni¶
Kattni is a creator, community leader, programmer, technical writer, maker, photographer, intermittent chef, classically trained vocalist, air plant cultivator, and fledgling synth nerd. She is passionate about building communities, learning, mentoring, and sharing her knowledge in an approachable way. She will always have a special place in her heart for making things blinky and bright. She is tolerated by a cat and three kittens who continue to let her live with them.
Corran Webster¶
Dr Corran Webster is a mathematician who has been building graphical user interfaces in Python since the 90's and has been active in the scientific Python world for many years, including a stint as co-chair of the SciPy conference. His roles over the years have ranged from academic to data scientist to software developer to manager to open source hacker, but always with a common thread of being a teacher and mentor.
Corran is the Founder and Principal at Unital Software and is an instructor for scientific Python training courses at Diller Digital. When not writing Python code, he cooks, messes around with micro-controllers and T-gauge trains, and will clean the cobwebs off that mountain bike any day now.
Emeritus team members¶
Chiang Fong Lee¶
When not poking at code to
Elias Dorneles¶
Elias is a certified yak-shaver. He likes to fiddle with Python and open source stuff. At home, he likes to read, cook and to play Beatles songs on his guitar.
Elias gets by with a little help from his friends.
Christopher Swenson¶
Dr. Christopher Swenson is a software engineer, computer scientist, and occasional mathematician. Swenson has been working with Python since about 2004, and involved in open source since before knowing what open source really was. Swenson likes sorting a lot, and maintains an open source high-performance C sorting library. Swenson has sold their labor to companies big and small, such as Simple, Google, and the US Government, and wrote a book on cryptography. Swenson is an organizer of PyDX. Swenson is a cupcake.
Dan Yeaw¶
Dan leads teams to design safety in to complex automotive and mobility systems, and dreams of using BeeWare tools to help model these systems.
When not hacking on open source projects, Dan likes to hang with his kids, brew beer, and play soccer.
Olga Bulat¶
Olga is a python and BeeWare enthusiast, also interested in
She also enjoys hanging out with kids.
Sam Schott¶
Sam is a physicist and a software engineer. He got introduced to Python while automating data acquisition in the lab and soon realized that he enjoyed writing and sharing code. When away from a computer, you will find him hiking or sailing along the English coast.
Amber Brown¶
Amber Brown pretends to be an owl on the internet. When she's not releasing or working on Twisted, she works on software for various commercial and non-profit companies. She's so good at talking endlessly about Twisted that Russell even once invited her to keynote on it.
Also, she likes people tweeting pictures of owls at her.
Charlotte Mays¶
Charlotte has been coding for more years than she likes to admit, and has a passion for building cool things and helping other people learn how to build cool things. She is among the organizers of PyLadies
Sagi Shadur¶
