My name is Kenneth Reitz. I work for Heroku.

I'm an open source software architect that loves to streamline mundane things. I see beauty in elegant architectures. I strive to write the simplest APIs possible, and I do so with Python.

I'm the author of Requests, Python HTTP for Humans.

My days are spent on the technical design of Heroku's Python Stack. My nights are spent passionately contributing to open source projects and the Python community. I curate the GitHub Reflog, a semi-periodic chronicle of awesome open source repos.

I also enjoy digital photography.

Featured Articles

2012

• How I Develop Things and Why
• Major Progress for Requests

2011

• Joining Heroku!
• Static Sites on Heroku Cedar
• Requests v0.6.0 Released!
• I Use This
• Requests v0.5.1 Released
• Legit: The Sexy Git CLI
• Announcing HttpBin.org
• Joining Arc90 + Readability
• Requests v0.4.0 Released
• New Blog: Finally Static!
• Requests: Python HTTP Module
• Tablib v0.9.4 Released
• Tablib Community Update

2010

• ShowMe v1.0.0 Released
• Tablib Dataset Library v0.6.1 Released!
• Terminal Productivity App: AutoJump
• Ventures: Python Development at NetApp
• GistAPI.py v0.1 Released
• Semantic Versioning
• Dev Tool: Ghost #manage /etc/hosts
• Spotify in the US? Yes please.

Backlog

Check out the article archive for blog posts going back to 2008.