Alex Gaynor
Special guest
Alex is an experienced software and security engineer, with deep expertise in both low-level technical implementation details and guiding teams to be successful. Comfortable working in organizations of all sizes and technical stacks.
He has conducted hundreds of engineering and engineering leadership interviews across his roles.
In addition to his formal positions, he's also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Python Software Foundation and Django Software Foundation, and has extensive experience building, leading, and contributing to numerous popular open source software communities. Provided security incident response and vulnerability coordination leadership to several open source projects including the Twisted networking framework, the Python Security Response Team, and the Python Cryptographic Authority.
Alex Gaynor has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Memory Safety and Modernizing Python's Cryptography Ecosystem with Alex Gaynor
November 13th, 2025 | 36 mins 13 secs
alex gaynor, coding, cryptography, g-research, gr-oss, gross, open source, oss, technology
Alex Gaynor, long-time open source contributor and core developer of Django, PyPy, and Python's cryptography library, joins us to discuss the challenging transition from C to Rust in the Python ecosystem.