Speaker

Meredydd Luff

Meredydd cofounded Anvil, the platform for building and deploying full-stack web apps with nothing but Python. Professionally, he has a PhD in usable programming systems; personally, he learnt to program with QBASIC and has worked on everything from messaging apps to the Linux kernel. However you slice it, he thinks the web is unnecessarily developer-hostile, so he set out to build a tool to make it better. The result was Anvil (https://anvil.works), where anyone who writes Python can build and deploy a useful web application.

He's based in Cambridge (the one on the Cam, not the on the Charles). In his spare time, you used to find him dancing ballroom and latin, or flying an aeroplane. These days, he enjoys a rich social life of staring at glowing boxes and talking to people who aren't really there.