PyCon US 2026 · Long Beach, CA · May 13-19

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Director of Engineering at the Python Software Foundation. Maintaining critical Python ecosystem services including PyPI, python.org, and PyCon. CPython Core Team triager. Core maintainer of the Litestar organization.

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# ~/oss.py

litestar core maintainer

cpython triager

python.org maintainer

warehouse (PyPI) maintainer

pycon-site maintainer

# ~/stack.py

# ~/main.py

>>> jacob.__dict__
{
    "role": "director of engineering @ psf",
    "stack": ["python", "typescript", "bash", "learning rust"],
    "focus": ["devops", "automation", "cloud", "distributed systems"],
    "side_quest": "an uncomfortably large on-prem homelab",
    "location": "birmingham, al",
}

>>> from jacob import open_source
>>> pprint(open_source)
{
    "litestar-org": "core maintainer — litestar, polyfactory, advanced-alchemy, sqlspec",
    "cpython": "triager — infrastructure, CI, devops",
    "pythondotorg": "maintainer — python.org",
    "pycon-site": "maintainer — us.pycon.org",
}

# ~/reading.py

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