Justin Mayer
Justin Mayer is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and advocate for data portability and privacy. His latest project is Fortressa.com, which replaces expensive SaaS data silos with self-hosted open-source applications. He also maintains the Pelican static site generator as well as a number of other projects for Python, Django, and the Fish shell.
Justin speaks Japanese and Italian, graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.
He writes about security and privacy at justinmayer.com and via @JMayer on Twitter.
Session
A huge source of friction in software is publishing new releases. Somebody has to manually review commits and write a change-log, add a version number, and publish to PyPI. We will cover a better way: an automated process in which new versions are automatically published by merging pull requests.