Trent Mick

Trent Mick
Komodo Product Manager, Senior Developer, ActiveState

Web site | @trentmick

Trent is ActiveState’s Senior Python developer and ActiveState’s Komodo lead. As a core Python contributor, Trent was involved in specifying Python’s logging package and in transitioning Python to 64-bit architectures. Trent is also the author of a number of Python modules including cmdln, go, python-markdown2. As the Komodo lead, Trent also works on numerous OpenKomodo projects.

Trent has been a member of the Python Software Foundation since its inception. He regularly attends and hosts Python industry events and meetings, most recently PyCon and VanPyZ, and writes a blog about Python development .

Trent was a software developer at EA before joining ActiveState in 2000. He earned both a Bachelor of Engineering and a B. Sc. in Computer Science Degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

Sessions

2:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
Python & Finance: US Government Mandates, Financial Modeling, and Other Snakes in the Grass
Products & Services
 Location: E142
Tags: python, open_data, finance
Diane Mueller (ActiveState), Trent Mick (ActiveState)
The recent US SEC proposal addressing the lack of transparency of asset-backed securities by adding disclosure requirements to include Python financial models reflects a need for Open Tools to work with Open Data to ensure transparency in Government. This session discusses why Python is a good fit for the SEC's proposal & the Open Source challenges ahead for the financial ecosystem. Read more.
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