Armin Ronacher
Austrian programmer; creator of Flask and Jinja, writes at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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- Armin Ronacher is an Austrian open-source programmer who created the Flask web framework for Python.
- The Pocoo project he started with Georg Brandl produced Pygments, Sphinx and the Jinja template engine; the libraries now live under the Pallets community.
- He worked for Plurk, Fireteam and Sentry, and has contributed to the Pi coding agent harness.
- He is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation.
Key facts
- Born
- 10 May 19891
- Education
- Bachelor's in business administration and software engineering, Graz University of Technology1
- Open source
- Created Flask and the Lektor CMS; Pocoo, with Georg Brandl, produced Pygments, Sphinx and Jinja1
- Work
- Plurk; Fireteam; Sentry1
- Recognition
- Python Software Foundation Fellow (2012); PSF Community Service Award (2014); Shuttleworth Foundation flash grant (2014)1
Links
- lucumr.pocoo.org (opens lucumr.pocoo.org)
- @mitsuhiko (opens x.com)
- mitsuhiko (opens github.com)
- State of Agentic Coding (podcast) (opens soac.dev)
- Wikipedia (opens en.wikipedia.org)
- Where they publish (ppll) (opens ppll.app)
- What they believe (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
- What they recommend (rcmnd) (opens rcmnd.app)
Sources
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