Amethyst Reese

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and speaking at events.

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Resume

Apr 2020 - Present

Maintainer, Omnilib Project

Jun 2012 - Present

Production Engineer, Meta Platforms

Nov 2011 - Jun 2012

Software Engineer, Bioware

Things I’ve built

Released µsort 1.0 μsort is a safe, minimal import sorter. Its primary goal is to make no “dangerous” changes to code, and to make no changes on code style. This is achieved by detecting distinct “...

Podcasts

I joined Michael Kennedy on the excellent Talk Python podcast, episode #304, last week to chat about the Omnilib Project, an organization of open source packages I started, and how they fit into th...

Speaking engagements

This past Friday, I presented a talk at PyCon US 2018 – the first time I’ve been fortunate enough to attend. The talk was focused on achieving high performance from modern Python services through t...

I gave a talk at PyCon Australia in Sydney. I discussed refactoring in Python, and how to build refactoring tools using nothing but the standard library, building up from concepts to syntax trees t...

I gave a talk at North Bay Python 2019 on the topics of coroutines, AsyncIO, and how they work. It’s a crazy journey from bytecode and runtime instructions to building our own terrible event loop i...