Itamar has been using Python since 1999, and was inspired to move to a new country by his trip to EuroPython in 2002. He writes extensively on Docker packaging for Python (https://pythonspeed.com/docker/), Python performance (https://pythonspeed.com/performance/), and memory usage(https://pythonspeed.com/memory/). In the past he spent many years as a maintainer of the Twisted framework, and nowadays is the maintainer of the Fil memory profiler (https://github.com/pythonspeed/filprofiler) and the Eliot logging library (https://eliot.readthedocs.io).