Mark Lavin

I'm the co-author of "Lightweight Django" for O'Reilly Media along with Julia Elman. I also recorded the Intermediate Django video series on building modern, scalable, and maintainable web applications with Django, also for O'Reilly.

More recently I've been writing about Python development and my other hobbies on Medium.

I enjoy speaking at conferences about Python, general web development practices, and technical leadership and hiring.

Speaking

  • OMGWFTAMQP - All Things Open - Oct 2016
  • You Belong with Me: Scraping Taylor Swift Lyrics with Python and Celery (with Rebecca Conley) - PyData Carolinas - Sept 2016
  • Developer Training (Keynote) - Python Nordeste - June 2016
  • Just be Nice: Rethinking Tech Hiring - All Things Open - Oct 2015
  • Intro to Client Side Testsing - DjangoCon - Sept 2015
  • Building SMS Applications with Django (with David Ray and Caleb Smith) - PyCon Sponsor Tutorial - April 2015
  • Testing Client-Side Applications with Django - O'Reilly Webcast - Jan 2015
  • Creating Enriching Web Applications with Django and Backbone.js - O'Reilly Webcast - Nov 2014
  • Anatomy of a Django Project - DjangoCon - Sept 2014
  • REST: It's Not Just for Servers - DjangoCon - Sept 2014
  • REST: It's Not Just for Servers - OSCon - July 2014
  • Developers and Designers: Collaborating on your Open Source Project (with Julia Elman) - OSCon - July 2013
  • Developers and Designers: Collaborating on your Python Project (with Julia Elman) - PyCon - Mar 2013
  • Maintaining Your Sanity While Maintaining Your Open Source App - PyCarolinas - Oct 2012
  • Maintaining Your Sanity While Maintaining Your Open Source App - DjangoCon - Sept 2012

You can also find my various posts from my previous job on the Caktus blog.