About

Pete Fein

Pete Fein is a technology professional and software industry leader with 20 years experience in data and Python. Since 2010 he has been an independent consultant and trainer at Snakedev, a boutique software consultancy solving hard technical and business problems for startup and enterprise companies. Pete possesses a unique breadth and depth of experience: each year he works with as many companies as a typical engineer will in their entire career. From 2003, Pete was founding CTO at job search engine juju.com.

Pete is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches data warehousing to professional students in the Heinz Master of Science in Information Technology program. He also conducts live training on data engineering on the O'Reilly platform and to private clients. Pete is currently writing a book Modern Data Warehouses for Pearson due out in 2024. He's the author of several open-source libraries, including a Python logging framework shipped by major Linux distributions.

Pete has been a 10-time speaker at the prestigious US national Pycon conference, as well as presenting at CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Yale University, University for Peace, Google, Mozilla, the Internet Archive, SciPy Conference, Open Source Bridge (keynote), Chicago Python User Group, Pittsburgh PyData, NYCPython, Bay Area Python Group, HOPE and the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference. He is co-organizer of the Pittsburgh PyData Meetup and is a past organizer of the Chicago Python User Group.

Pete earned a BA in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Chicago in 2000. He subsequently completed Masters-level coursework in advanced computer science and engineering, including compilers, network programming, concurrency, computational theory, Python and Lisp with independent educator David Beazley. Since learning to program at the age of 15, Fein has acquired over 30 years of software development experience.

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