Ee Durbin
Director Of Infrastructure at Python Software Foundation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolEe Durbin is a pragmatic Director of Infrastructure with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale, secure Python-based systems for organizations like the Python Software Foundation and high-growth teams. He combines hands-on back-end and DevOps expertise—deploying PyPI to Kubernetes/AWS, implementing OpenID Connect for Warehouse, and hardening TLS/auth flows in projects like ghostunnel—with leadership of community-facing infrastructure. His work spans CI/CD, incident response, secrets management, and performance tuning, and has supported mission-critical platforms that handled millions of users and transactions. A longtime open-source contributor and technical writer, he balances code, documentation, and governance to keep community infrastructure reliable and auditable. Notably, he led infrastructure for the all-new PyPI rollout (cabotage) including automated end-to-end TLS and auditable secrets management.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics and Physics, BS Mathematics and Physics at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (51)
database-migrations10
crypto10
mirroring10
ssl10
tls1210
postgresql10
restructuredtext10
github10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
testing10
rs10
proxy10
tls1310
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
python/pythondotorg
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Source code for python.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:195 reviews, 228 commits, 340 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Ee primarily focused on improving the python.org website's backend functionality and deployment infrastructure. Their work included removing print statements that were causing issues in the uwsgi process and updating the notification email for success story submissions. They also made significant contributions to making the site compatible with Heroku hosting, implementing custom storage solutions, and configuring the nginx web server to improve the website's performance.
pythonpython3psf
pypi/warehouse
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
The Python Package Index
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1303 reviews, 298 commits, 2794 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ee primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the Python Package Index (PyPI) project. Their contributions included implementing OpenID Connect functionality, modifying database schemas (specifically, adding a 'sub' column to the 'openids' table), and integrating metadata from wheel files such as License-File and License-Expression. They also addressed performance and stability issues by adding constraints and indexes, and fixing bugs related to the handling of the user-agent string and handling of HTTP status codes.
pythonpackage-registrypackage-repositorypypipypi-source
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