Mark Smith
Head Of Python Ecosystem at JetBrains
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Smith is a seasoned software leader and Head of the Python Ecosystem at JetBrains, with 15 years of hands-on engineering and 14 years of team leadership across developer advocacy, DevOps and product strategy. He blends deep Python expertise with practical experience in Rust, Go, JavaScript and databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), having driven scalability and developer experience at companies like FanDuel, Skyscanner, MongoDB and Vonage. A prominent community builder—PSF Fellow, DSF member, PyCon UK organiser and DjangoCon Europe co-chair—he’s also an experienced keynote speaker and producer of highly rated technical content. Mark contributes to open-source projects such as rst2pdf (improving PDF tooling and Python 3 support), reflecting a long-standing habit of fixing tricky bugs and improving code quality. He excels at translating community needs into product direction, combining platform-level thinking with pragmatic engineering and advocacy.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of St AndrewsHurstpierpoint College
Github Skills (7)
pdf-generation10
debug10
restructuredtext10
python10
testing10
setuptools9
py9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rst2pdf/rst2pdf
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Use a text editor. Make a PDF.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the `rst2pdf` project by addressing bug fixes and improving code quality, as evidenced by commits fixing issues and refining code structure. Their work includes adding a failing test case, correcting existing code, and refactoring code for clarity. They also updated the setup file to specify supported Python 3 versions.
pythonpdfpdf-generationrestructuredtextpresentation-tools
python-aberdeen/pythonaberdeen
Apr 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 7 months
edinburghpythonpython3
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