About Ned

Created 3 March 2003, last updated 5 March 2022

I’m a software developer with a long career. I have a good-sized family: one wife and three sons, one autistic. I live just outside of Boston.

The best way to reach me is by email. But also:

• I’m on Mastodon,
• I’m nedbat in the #python IRC channel on Libera,
• I’m nedbat in the Python Discord,
• I’m in a number of Slack workspaces, including Boston Python and Open edX.

My interests, generally reflected in my blog, include: software engineering, parenting, math (especially visual aspects, such as geometry), politics, geeky recreations, language, and so on.

I’m an organizer of the Boston Python user group.

I’ve worked in a bunch of places:

• University of Pennsylvania,
• Digital, which became part of Compaq, now Hewlett-Packard,
• Lotus, which became part of IBM,
• Iris, the subsidiary of Lotus that developed Notes,
• Blue Ripple, a startup which is no more,
• Kubi Software, a startup which was folded into Pragmatech,
• Tabblo, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
• 2U/edX, helping to educate the world.