Jesse is Staff Engineer at MongoDB, specializing in C and Python. He's the lead developer of the MongoDB C Driver, and he contributes to Python, PyMongo, and Tornado. Jesse and Guido van Rossum are co-authors of the "asyncio Coroutines" chapter in the Architecture of Open Source Applications. Jesse lives in New York City with his partner Jennifer Armstrong and their two hamsters, Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper.

Read about his keynote, "Why generosity turns to rage, and what to do about it"