I have been a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Minnesota State University Moorhead since 1999. I began doing scientific programming around 1988 and jumped into Python in 2013. Since then, I've worked on astropy and some of its affiliated packages, ipywidgets and ipyevents, and helped with some of the early work on conda-forge. I attended my first SciPy in 2014 and was introduced to IPython widgets in one of the first tutorials I attended.