This week’s PyDev Irina Truong! We take a few moments to get to know Irina, how she got her start with Python, and see what she’s working on these days.
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This week we welcome Irina Truong ( @irinatruong) as our PyDev of the Week! Irina has been a speaker at several Python conferences and is a maintainer for pgcli, a Python package that is a command-line interface to the Postgres database. You can see what else she has been up to over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know Irina!
I have a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kharkiv University of Electronics (in Ukraine). I do aikido, and ride my bike to places when possible. I also love flying (and hold a private pilot certificate), snowboarding and rock climbing, but those hobbies had to give way when my daughter was born (she is 4 years old). I love to travel. I’ve been to a few countries in Europe, but never to Asia or South America, so those are on my list of places to see.
I’ve been working for a long time in C# (. NET), but I was not very impressed by the whole. NET ecosystem. I wrote web applications in a few different languages, and yet there was no love at first sight. Until I encountered my first Python tutorial on building a small web application. The code was clear, concise, and the application did not need any servers set up to run locally. I knew I wanted to write in this language. So I wrote a small personal project in it. Then, I bought a ticket to my first PyCon, and this was where I found a new employer, one that would actually let me write in Python. Imagine that!
I wrote for a few years in Perl, PHP, Java, and a little in Ruby. I learned Scala, but never had the chance to use it in a real-world project. C# was the longest phase, but once I switched to Python, I never looked back. Occasionally, I had to do some work on the front-end (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) but I prefer back-end.
