I am a Research Software Engineer at Princeton University with a background in High Energy Physics. I have spent a lot of time focused on compiled code; I am a maintainer of pybind11, cibuildwheel, scikit-build, build, packaging, and other packages related to distributing and building Python projects. I've also been involved with teaching packaging: I wrote the current iteration of the packaging.python.org's guide on packaging a project based on PEP 621, and I am the lead author of the Scientific-Python Library Development Guide, and I have given various talks and courses over Python packaging, such as hosting the SIMPLE-Py workshop alongside SciPy 2026. I also wrote PEP 808 and implemented it across projects. I write about various topics including quite a bit on packaging on iscinumpy.dev, my blog.
I would work to be a fair representative for all users, but I have a strong connection and background with the scientific and compiled-extension community, which has a particular challenge set of issue and needs. I am interested in continuing to simplify the experience for developers shipping code (especially compiled code) and users seamlessly getting that code. I am also interested in improving and modernizing the standards around metadata, and supporting the needs of small and large projects alike.