**Audie Delmindo** is a software engineer and technical educator with over a decade of experience in full‑stack development and data engineering. He has worked at startups and mid‑sized companies, building everything from e‑commerce platforms to real‑time data pipelines. Audie discovered his passion for teaching when he mentored his first intern in 2014; since then he has designed and delivered Python and computer science curricula for bootcamps, corporate training programs, and university extension courses.
His teaching philosophy is simple: **learn by building**. Every concept in this book is immediately applied in a meaningful project, so that theory and practice reinforce each other. Audie believes that the biggest obstacle for beginners is not intelligence but fear of failure – he strives to create a safe, encouraging space where mistakes are celebrated as learning opportunities.
When he’s not coding or writing, Audie enjoys hiking in the Pacific Northwest, playing jazz guitar, and experimenting with home automation using – of course – Python. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner and a small army of houseplants.
You can follow Audie on Twitter at **@AudieDelmindo**, visit his personal site [audiedelmindo.dev](https://