Ron DuPlain is a core contributor to the Flask project, and has built dozens of production applications with Flask. He has been thinking in Python since 2005, applying it to a variety of applications from embedded systems to web development. He is based in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, where he runs the local Python meetup group and is an organizer of the local bar camp unconferences. He holds a Bachelors in Science in Computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Masters in Systems engineering from the University of Virginia.