Itamar Turner-Trauring is the creator of the sites PythonSpeed and Sciagraph, a performance and memory profiler for Python in data science and scientific computing.
He is also the author of open-source tools such as:
- Fil - a memory profiler for Python.
- Eliot - a logging library with tracing capabilities, suitable for data science, scientific computing, and small distributed systems.
Itamar's main goal is to support the development of useful software (without unnecessary technologies such as blockchain) and to combat climate change. Faster software reduces CO2 emissions, and accelerating scientific computing helps create new solutions, from vaccines to more efficient energy grids.
In his spare time, he volunteers with a bicycle safety advocacy group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, promoting the transition to more environmentally friendly modes of transport. His efforts have inspired similar initiatives in major cities such as Seattle, Washington, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
