Kenneth Reitz
Python developer who created the Requests HTTP library and Pipenv; also a photographer and musician.
At a glance
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- Kenneth Reitz is an American programmer who taught himself Python.
- He built Requests, which became the standard HTTP library for Python, around 2010 and 2011.
- He worked at Heroku for about six and a half years, then DigitalOcean.
- He also released Pipenv and wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python.
Key facts
- Born
- 1988, central Pennsylvania1
- Requests
- Built in 2010 to 2011; Requests 1.0 in 2012 to 20131
- Other software
- httpbin.org, Records, Maya, Pipenv (2017)1
- Book
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python (2016)1
- Work
- Joined Heroku in 2010 to 2011; left for DigitalOcean in 2018 to 2019, after 6.5 years1
- Philosophy
- "For humans" API design, which he says became a life philosophy1
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