Marc-Andre is the CEO and founder of eGenix.com, a Python-focused project and consulting company based in Germany. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Düsseldorf. His work with and for Python started in Winter 1993. In 1997, he became a Python Core Developer. He designed and implemented the Unicode support in Python and continued to maintain the Python Unicode implementation for more than a decade, after it first appeared in Python 1.6 in 2000.
Marc-Andre is a founding member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and has served on the PSF Board several times. He is also the author of the well-known mx Extensions, e.g. mxTextTools, mxDateTime and mxODBC, which are now distributed and maintained through eGenix.com.
Today Marc-Andre spends most of his time managing large-scale customer projects heavily relying on Python and databases.
