Dusty Phillips is a Canadian software developer and author. He’s been developing software for well over half his life. He spent most of his career writing Python in a wide variety of contexts: freelance consultant, first engineer at a 2 person startup, director of engineering at a startup, engineer at Facebook, a stint with the United Nations to name a few.

He’s written a few books along the way with more to come. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Information systems from Athabasca University and a Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from York University.

He has contributed to numerous open source projects, most notably Arch Linux and various Python projects. He also co-founded the popular Puget Sound Programming Python meetup in the Seattle area.

Dusty lives in idyllic New Brunswick with his wife Jennifer Pierce. His ever-changing hobbies currently include coding, reading, writing, hiking, and woodworking.

He is co-creator of the Fablehenge novel authoring platform and currently employed with Float Financial.