Michael Kennedy
Founder at Talk Python Training
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Michael Kennedy is a Python-focused founder, educator, and podcast host with 12 years of hands-on experience building web apps, APIs, and teaching materials from Portland, Oregon. As founder of Talk Python Training and host of the popular Talk Python To Me and Python Bytes podcasts, he blends entrepreneurism with community leadership and was named a Python Software Foundation Fellow in 2018. His engineering work spans full-stack and back-end development—especially asyncio, FastAPI, Flask, and MongoDB—demonstrated across many course repos and practical apps from podcast downloaders to web scrapers. Michael’s strength is turning complex Python concepts into approachable, production-ready examples and courses that thousands of developers rely on. He pairs a rigorous mathematics background with decades of lecturing and curriculum design, and quietly ships polished developer tooling and learning artifacts that power real-world projects.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasUniversity of California, San DiegoMathematics, Mathematics at Purdue UniversityM.A. Mathematics Mathematics, M.A. Mathematics Mathematics at San Diego State University
English, German
Github Skills (97)
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fastapi10
web-application10
python10
multithreading10
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async-await10
rest-api10
threaded10
pydantic10
web-development10
mongoengine10
flask10
aiohttp10
performance-monitor10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
talkpython/mastering-pycharm-course
Oct 2017 - Jul 2022
Course demos and handouts for Talk Python's Effective PyCharm course
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:237 commits, 32 PRs, 138 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the development of a Python-based podcast downloader application. Their work involved implementing core functionality for downloading podcast information, parsing RSS feeds, and displaying episode details. The user refactored the code, extracting functions and introducing improved code structure. The user also integrated the latest episode tracking feature.
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talkpython/async-techniques-python-course
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Async Techniques and Examples in Python Course
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 9 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on implementing and refactoring asynchronous techniques within the provided Python course repository. Their contributions involved developing asynchronous producer-consumer patterns, web scraping applications using `aiohttp`, and exploring different event loops (asyncio, uvloop, and trio). They also demonstrated expertise in threading, specifically implementing producer-consumer patterns with threads, as well as thread safety with locks. These changes demonstrate expertise in parallelism and performance optimization in Python.
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