Çağıl is a Lead Backend Engineer at Kraken Tech, Django Software Foundation Vice President, and Django London Meetup co-organizer. We discuss her background studying computer science in Turkey, organizing DjangoGirls and Python events in Istanbul, and her current work today.

Simon is a longstanding contributor to Django and a member of the Steering Council and the Security Team. We discuss his current work at Zapier, type hints, django-ninja vs Django REST Framework, and thoughts on the future of Django.

Jacob is a co-creator of Django. We discuss Django’s early design decisions, community consensus vs the BDFL approach, HTMX, deployment, and more.