About Ned
Created 3 March 2003, last updated 29 July 2025
I’m a software developer with a long career. I have a good-sized family: a 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 and Bluesky,
- 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 deeply embedded in the Python world. I’m on the Python core team, and have made a handful of contributions over the years, mostly in documentation.
I’m an organizer of the Boston Python user group.
I’ve worked in a bunch of places, most recently: