Hugo van Kemenade
Sovereign Tech Agency
Biography
Hugo is a Python core developer, release manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15, and maintainer of open-source projects such as Pillow. He has been involved in open source for 20 years, and Python since around 2012.
His day job is also working on Python, as a Fellow at the Sovereign Tech Agency, which is supported by the German government to invest in critical digital infrastructure. Just as governments maintain infrastructure like bridges and bike lanes, open source also needs maintaining.
Hugo lives in Helsinki, Finland, helps organise PyCon Finland, Helsinki Python and NaNoGenMo, and sometimes cycles on the frozen sea.