👋🏻 I'm Galen (he/him), a developer with broad webdev knowledge who specializes in backend engineering using Python and the Django framework. Have been working with both since 2014.

I have a small personal blog (hosted here on GitHub!) where I (infrequently) write on topics that interest me and intermediate-level tutorials related to Django and Python (no tutorial hell here).

⚙ Working with...

• Python-based microservices communicating via JSON-RPC
• Django (models, migrations, APIs in DRF, all of it)
• Docker
• SQL, with a preference for PostgreSQL
• HTMX and Hyperscript

🛠 Familiar with (though no expert in)...

• Django REST Framework
• Flask
• JavaScript
• GitHub Actions

Learning

• All of the above; it never stops!
• FastAPI
• Ansible
• Jenkins

Other stuff

For details on my work history, please check out my LinkedIn profile.

I am a maintainer on python-amazon-mws, a pure-Python wrapper for Amazon's MWS API. Said MWS is in decline, in favor of Amazon's newer SP-API; and unfortunately I have neither the time nor interest to make the leap where others have already done some fine work.

🙏🏻 Sponsorship

I love working in open source projects, but of course my time with family and my paying job come first (in that order).

Your kind donation helps me:

• Cover the costs of cloud infrastructure to host my work
• Justify the time spent nailing down issues and developing new features in my projects
• Convince my spouse that all of this isn't a massive waste of time 😅