I have been a Python developer for 15 years. I maintain the Python Developer Tooling Handbook, a practical, free resource on packaging and other developer tools, and pythonplot.com, a Rosetta Stone for Python plotting. My day job is as an ML infrastructure engineer at Spotify. I have contributed to CPython, Pandas, and Conda.
In my work and public projects, my goal is to understand real user needs and provide practical solutions. I hope to bring that same user focus to the packaging council. PEP standards are what have enabled the ecosystem of packaging tools we now have, and the packaging council has a unique opportunity protect and strengthen them.
A specific priority I have is to bring clarity to the Python Packaging User Guide. While useful, it has fallen behind the recent developments in Python packaging and is constrained by being limited to PyPA members projects.
My career has been built by Python, and I look forward to this opportunity to give back and help ensure the long term success of this great language.