Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
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Bank of America
careers.bankofamerica.comQuartz is a massive Python development initiative that is revolutionizing the Global Markets business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Quartz will be the primary platform for pricing trades, managing positions, and computing risk exposure. Our technology stack includes globally distributed object-oriented databases, Linux compute farms, and advanced quant libraries. Thousands of developers are using the highly-agile platform to deliver applications to thousands of end users.
We’re committed to helping make financial lives better by connecting our customers and clients to the financial solutions they need and to helping the communities we serve.
Gold Sponsors
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BuzzFeed
tech.buzzfeed.comBuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media company delivering news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We strive to connect deeply with our audience, and give them news and entertainment worth sharing with their friends, family, and the people who matter in their lives.
We have the innovation-obsessed culture and structure of a venture-backed tech company with an engineering team focused on building the media platform for today’s world, and the future.
Our tech team is ~200 people strong with team members working in locations around the world — including New York City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, London, and San Francisco. We’re small enough that an individual can join our team and have a major impact on our products and culture, and big enough that there are a ton of brilliant and awesome colleagues to learn from. We rely on experimentation, robust data collection, and reporting to shape our products, delight our readers and viewers, inform our content creators, and execute on our business initiatives.
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Clover Health
www.cloverhealth.com/en/about-us/careersWe are reinventing health insurance by combining the power of data with human empathy to keep our members healthier. We believe the healthcare system is broken, so we’ve created custom software and analytics to empower our clinical staff to intervene and provide personalized care to the people who need it most.
We put our members first, and our success as a team is measured by the quality of life of the people we serve. Those who work at Clover are passionate and mission-driven with diverse areas of expertise, working together to solve the most complicated problem in the world: healthcare.
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Equinox
tech.equinox.com/work-with-us/We are a company with integrated luxury and lifestyle offerings centered on movement, nutrition and regeneration. In addition to Equinox, our other brands, Blink, Pure Yoga, SoulCycle and Furthermore are all recognized for inspiring and motivating members and employees to maximize life. Within our portfolio of brands, we have more than 200 locations within every major city across the country in addition to London, Toronto and Vancouver.
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Linode
www.linode.comLinode is a leading cloud hosting provider founded in 2003. Today, the company boasts more than 400,000 customers worldwide and operates nine datacenters across three continents.
Linode subscribers can create a cloud server in under a minute and then dynamically scale their environments to meet demands, paying only for resources used without long-term commitments. Lightning-quick SSD servers starting at $5/month for 1GB.
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PyLadies
www.pyladies.comPyLadies are a group of women developers worldwide who love the Python programming language. We write code by day or night. Some of us hack on Python projects on the side, while others work full-time on Python development. But it doesn’t matter. We all just like writing Python code, and that’s what brings us together.
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Tudor
www.tudor.comTudor is an established macro and quantitative investment manager. Python is central to our business: we use Python to ingest billions of data points, run thousands of processes, and manage millions of trades. If you have an interest in financial markets, and know how to put Python and other technology to work making sense of data, we want to talk to you. Our teams are small and agile, and make an outsized impact on our performance.
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Twilio
www.twilio.com/docs/sms/quickstart/pythonTwilio is a cloud communications platform for software developers to build, scale and operate real time communications in their software applications.
Twilio powers the future of business communications, enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software. We take care of the messy telecom hardware and expose a globally available cloud API so developers can interact with intelligent & complex communications systems.
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Venmo
venmo.com/jobs/At Venmo, we’re working to build a payment experience that’s simple, delightful, and connected. Fueled by an abundance of snacks, locally sourced cold brew, and each other, our team solves exciting new challenges every day. Venmo’s mission is to change people’s relationships with money and each other. And it’s working - people love using Venmo but we’re not done yet. We want the magic of sending money with Venmo to be in every place you use it. There’s still much more to do!
Silver Sponsors
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Bloomberg
www.techatbloomberg.comBloomberg technology drives the world’s financial markets. More than 5,000 engineers define, architect, build and deploy complete systems to fulfill the needs of leading financial market participants globally. We trust our teams to choose the right technologies for the job, and, at Bloomberg, the answer is often Python. We employ an active community of more than 2,000 Python developers who have their hands in everything: from financial analytics to data science to contributing to open source technologies like Project Jupyter. We also sponsor and host many events for the Python community at large.
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Carbon Five
carbonfive.comCarbon Five is a digital product development consultancy. We partner with our clients to create exceptional products and grow effective teams. We work with numerous startups in addition to organizations like Charles Schwab, Skype, National Geographic and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Facebook
www.facebook.com/careersFacebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
Facebook is defined by our unique culture – one that rewards impact. We encourage people to be bold and solve the problems they care most about. We work in small teams and move fast to develop new products, constantly iterating. The phrase “this journey is 1% finished,” reminds us that we’ve only begun to fulfill our mission to bring the world closer together.
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Hearst
hearst.referrals.selectminds.com/magazines-usHearst Magazines Digital Media reaches more than 100 million people around the world every month on digital platforms connected to loved and trusted brands like Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics, Esquire, Elle, Runner’s World, and 29 television stations - all served on a microservices based media publish and distribution platform.
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IBM
developer.ibm.comWe empower developers to create incredible things.
We are champions of coders, providing the resources, tools, and community that inspire you to go further. From videos and tutorials to open source code and Developer Advocates, your possibilities are limitless.
IBM Developer exists to bring coders together as a community. The collective brainstorming power, opportunities for learning new tricks and sharing yours, and access to expert advice make this an invaluable resource.
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MongoDB
www.mongodb.comMongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build. Headquartered in New York, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, we are close to where you do business. MongoDB has more than 4,900 customers in over 85 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded over 30 million times and there have been more than 850,000 MongoDB University registrations.
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Peloton
www.onepeloton.com/careersPeloton uses technology and design to connect the world through fitness, empowering people to be the best version of themselves anywhere, anytime. Peloton offers the very best of fitness and tech via its innovative Bike, Tread and Digital platforms, which bring members the best workouts possible, all from the convenience of their own homes.
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Two Sigma
www.twosigma.comTwo Sigma is a different kind of investment manager. We view the world through a technology lens. We hire scientists, software engineers and academics who tackle the world’s most challenging financial problems. We look for solutions grounded in data science and research, and powered by technology. And we are finding ways for our platform to reshape new industries, from insurance and securities to private investments and venture-backed startups. Come seek with us.
Startup Sponsors
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Daily Harvest
www.daily-harvest.com/careersFounded in 2015, Daily Harvest offers a solution to the challenge of eating nutrient-rich, unprocessed meals while leading a busy life. The New York-based direct-to-consumer company delivers convenient, plant-based smoothies, overnight oats, chia parfaits, soups, Harvest Bowls, and functional lattes to freezers across the US. As one of the fastest growing e-commerce brands, Daily Harvest is reimagining the frozen food category using a “farm-freezing” process — harvesting fruits and vegetables at peak ripeness and immediately freezing them to lock in nutrients and flavor. Each recipe combines organic produce with nutrient-dense superfoods and is ready to eat in minutes, prepared by adding a liquid and blending, soaking, or heating. For more information, visit www.daily-harvest.com.
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JamBon Software
www.jambonsw.comJamBon Software is a software consultancy that specializes in building beautiful and robust applications. The team at JamBon Software is passionate about usability and security, and loves building software that provides the user with a memorable experience.
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Morty
www.himorty.com/pygotham/Morty is the smart way to get a mortgage. We’re building technology to bring education, transparency, and savings to homebuyers everywhere.
Social Event Sponsors
Financial Aid Sponsors
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DEFNA
www.defna.orgDjango Events Foundation North America (DEFNA) is a non-profit based in California USA. It was formed in 2015 at the request of the Django Software Foundation (DSF) to run DjangoCon US. The DSF have licensed DEFNA to run DjangoCon US for 2015-2020. Beyond DjangoCon US we also plan to be involved with other events in North America that cover the education and outreach of Django.
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Python Software Foundation
www.python.org/psf/The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. The majority of the PSF’s work is focused on empowering and supporting people within the Python community. The PSF has active grant programs that support sprints, conferences, meet ups, user groups, and Python development efforts all over the world. In addition, the PSF underwrites and runs PyCon US, the primary Python community conference. Being part of the PSF means being part of the Python community. Recently we changed the PSF to an open membership organization, so that everyone who uses and supports Python can join. To learn more, visit https://www.python.org/psf/membership.
Young Coders Sponsor
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AMNH's BridgeUP: STEM
www.amnh.org/learn-teach/bridgeup-stemAMNH’s BridgeUP: STEM is focused on the intersection of computer science and science. The program includes: a tuition-free intensive three-year Brown Scholars program for high school girls; the Helen Fellowship, a one-year post-baccalaureate fellowship for women; computational science workshops for middle schoolers; and an annual overnight Hackathon for professional developers addressing computational challenges in scientific discipline.
BridgeUP: STEM is generously supported by a grant from the Helen Gurley Brown Revocable Trust to bridge the gender and opportunity gaps in computer science and science.
Media Sponsor
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Pearson / InformIT
informit.com/pythonInformIT (a part of Pearson, the world’s largest learning company) is your one-stop technology learning resource. Our passion is delivering trusted and quality content and resources from the authors, creators, innovators, and leaders of technology and business from the best publishers in IT including Pearson Addison-Wesley.
Community Sponsors
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DjangoCon US
2018.djangocon.usDjangoCon US is an international community-run conference about the Django web framework, held each year in North America. It’s six days of tutorials, talks, and sprints in an inclusive, welcoming atmosphere.
DjangoCon US has something for everyone, from the person who develops Django applications for a living to the person who just tinkers in their spare time. Attendees will discover details about a range of diverse applications that people from all over the world are building with Django, get a deeper understanding of concepts they’re already familiar with and discover new ways to use them, and have a lot of fun!
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PyOhio
www.pyohio.orgThe FREE Regional Python Conference for the Midwest and beyond! PyOhio is July 27-28, 2019 in Columbus, OH. Get more info and sign up for email updates at https://www.pyohio.org/.
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PyTennessee
www.pytennessee.orgPyTennessee is a regional Python conference held every February in Nashville, TN. PyTennessee 2019 will be our 6th year, and like every year before it, promises to be our best yet! There’s a bit of something for everyone at PyTennessee 2019, and if you’d like to know more about it, please visit our About page.