Simon Willison

SIMON WILLISON is a speaker, writer, developer and all-round web technology enthusiast. Simon works for Guardian News and Media as a technical architect for both guardian.co.uk and the forthcoming Guardian Developer Network. Before joining the Guardian, Simon worked as a consultant for clients that included the BBC, Automattic and GCap Media.

Simon is a past member of Yahoo!’s Technology Development team, where his projects included the initial prototype of FireEagle, Yahoo!’s location broker API. Prior to Yahoo!, he worked at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas. He is a co-creator of the Django web framework, and a passionate advocate for Open Source and standards-based development. He maintains a popular web development weblog at simonwillison.net.

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