Brett Slatkin

Brett Slatkin is the author of the book Effective Python and has been writing Python code professionally for the past 19 years. He works as a principal software engineer in the Office of the CTO at Google developing technology strategies and rapid prototypes. His experience includes: founding Google Surveys, a platform for collecting machine learning and market research datasets; launching Google App Engine, the company's first cloud computing product; scaling Google's A/B experimentation products to billions of users; and co-creating PubSubHubbub, the W3C standard for real-time RSS feeds. He earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York.