| 3.16, 3.17 |  |
Savannah Ostrowski |
announcement · interview |
Current Steering Council member (2026 term). Works on CPython JIT compiler at FastAPI Labs. United States. |
| 3.14, 3.15 |  |
Hugo van Kemenade |
PEP 745 · PEP 790 · announcement |
Active PSF Fellow. Pillow maintainer and release manager since 2019. PEP Editor. Sovereign Tech Fellow (2024). Helsinki, Finland. |
| 3.12, 3.13 |  |
Thomas Wouters |
PEP 693 · PEP 719 · interview |
Active PSF Distinguished Service Award (2025). Steering Council member. Former PSF Board Chair (2015-2019). Production engineer at Meta. Core developer since 2000. Amsterdam, NL. |
| 3.10, 3.11 |  |
Pablo Galindo Salgado |
PEP 619 · PEP 664 |
Steering Council member. Works at Bloomberg. Theoretical physicist (black hole thermodynamics PhD). Maintains buildbot.python.org infrastructure. Managed 3.10 pattern matching release and error message improvements. London, UK. |
| 3.8, 3.9 |  |
Łukasz Langa |
PEP 569 · PEP 596 |
PSF CPython Developer in Residence (2021-present). Creator of Black code formatter. Asyncio core maintainer. Proposed 9-month release cadence (PEP 596). Poznań, Poland. |
| 3.6, 3.7 |  |
Ned Deily |
PEP 494 · PEP 537 |
Long-time macOS installer maintainer since 2015. NYC Python co-organizer. Managed f-string release. NYC Metro. |
| 3.4, 3.5 |  |
Larry Hastings |
PEP 429 · PEP 478 |
Created "The Gilectomy" (experimental GIL removal). Co-chair Python Language Summit. Managed asyncio integration and authored PEP 101 (Doing Python Releases 101). Ojai, CA. |
| 3.2, 3.3 |  |
Georg Brandl |
PEP 392 · PEP 398 |
Creator of Sphinx documentation system. Long-time documentation editor (1995-2006). Core developer since 2005. Major AST module contributor. Final RM for Python 3.2 (EOL Feb 2016). |
| 2.7, 3.1 |  |
Benjamin Peterson |
PEP 373 · PEP 375 |
Became release manager at age 15. Harvard graduate. Author of `six` compatibility library. Managed final Python 2 release (2.7.18, April 2020), extending support by a decade. PEP 466 (network security) author. |
| 2.6, 3.0 |  |
Barry Warsaw |
PEP 361 · interview |
PEP 1 Co-authored PEP 1 (PEP process). GNU Mailman project leader. Jython maintainer. Canonical/Ubuntu (2007-2009), currently at NVIDIA. Managed dual 2.6/3.0 transition release. Also co-RM for 2.2-2.4. San Francisco, CA. |
| 2.4, 2.5 |  |
Anthony Baxter |
PEP 320 · PEP 356 |
Longest-serving release manager tenure (4+ years). Google Australia (2006-2013). Built Google Crisis Response tools. First to introduce release candidate cycles. Co-RM for 2.4 with Barry Warsaw and Raymond Hettinger. AUSOUG conference chair. Melbourne, Australia. |
| 2.0, 2.1, 2.3 |  |
Jeremy Hylton |
PEP 200 · PEP 226 · PEP 283 |
MIT graduate. Worked at CNRI with Guido van Rossum. Led CPython development 2000-2002. Built early AST compiler infrastructure. Managed Unicode support and list comprehensions release (2.0). Co-RM for 2.3 with Barry Warsaw and Tim Peters. Later at Google (2005-2011). Brooklyn, NY. |
| 2.4 |  |
Raymond Hettinger |
PEP 320 |
Co-RM for 2.4 alongside Anthony Baxter and Barry Warsaw. Core developer since 2001. Creator of itertools module. Principal engineer at Variation. San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 1.6 |  |
Fred L. Drake, Jr. |
PEP 160 |
Long-time documentation editor (1995-2006). Converted Python docs to SGML/XML (Docutils). Release Coordinator for PythonLabs at CNRI. First PEP for release management (PEP 160). Reston, VA. |