🍁 Brett Cannon

Who is 🍁 Brett Cannon?

🍁 Brett Cannon is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft based in Vancouver, Canada.12 He is a member of the Python Steering Council and manages the team responsible for the Python experience in Visual Studio Code.1

Career Highlights

• Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft (March 2019 - Present)

  • Manages a distributed team of developers for the Python experience in Visual Studio Code
  • Drives product and roadmap decisions for Python in VS Code
  • Serves as the central point of contact for Python-related matters for the wider VS Code team
  • Continues participation in the wider Python community1

• Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft (July 2015 - March 2019)

  • Consulted with teams on idiomatic Python API design
  • Provided on-ramp support to help teams be self-sustaining in Python API design
  • Acted as project manager on the Pyjion experimental JIT for CPython
  • Developer lead of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code1

• Software Engineer at Google (November 2011 - June 2015)

  • Worked on the Shopping team to implement the shopping card for Google Now on Android
  • Helped design and maintain a parsing pipeline for email receipts1

Awards and Recognition

• PSF Community Service Award (August 2008)

  • Recognized for infrastructure work migrating the Python bug-tracking system and efforts keeping the Python developer introduction updated1

• Frank Willison Memorial Award (2016)

  • Awarded annually by the Python Software Foundation to a person judged to have made an outstanding contribution to the Python community1

Brett Cannon has made significant contributions to the Python community over the past two decades as a core developer and through his work at Microsoft on the Python experience in Visual Studio Code.34