Petr Andreev: 2026 PSF Board Election Candidate Interview

I am a Python educator, CPython-internals specialist, community organizer, and international Python speaker.

I teach Advanced Python and CPython internals, from memory management and interpreter architecture to free-threading and performance. My work increasingly focuses on turning technical education into real-world participation: research, open-source contribution, conference speaking, and leadership.

Before focusing on Python, I helped build an educational community of roughly 2,500 participants. I assembled an organizing team, secured external funding, and developed partnerships with companies, an endowment, and other organizations to support courses, competitions, speakers, and community programs.

These experiences shaped the model behind much of my work: develop developers → develop contributors → develop community leaders.

I would bring experience building organizations and systems around technical communities.