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Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Django co-creator; engineering-management essays

Kaplan-Moss co-created Django at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper alongside Adrian Holovaty, and served as a core contributor and BDFL delegate for the project. He subsequently held senior security and engineering-management roles in industry. He is widely cited for essays challenging myths around developer productivity, including his influential piece on the 'spectrum' view of programmer performance.

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