Dr. Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He co-founded and and was the first Executive Director of Software Carpentry, which has taught basic software skills to tens of thousands of researchers worldwide, and has authored or edited over a dozen books, including Beautiful Code, Making Software, The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Teaching Tech Together, and most recently Software Design by Example in JavaScript and Software Design by Example in Python.

Greg is a member of the Python Software Foundation and a recipient of ACM SIGSOFT’s Influential Educator of the Year award, and currently works as a software engineering manager at Plotly.