S1 Episode 8 - Don Jayamanne

Sad Python Girls Club

Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🐍 This time we're thrilled to host Don Jayamanne, the creator of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code! 🥇 In this episode Don talks about his journey, from creating what's now the most popular extension for VS Code, to being a software engineer at Microsoft now working on the Jupyter extension (as well as becoming one of the most popular VS Code extension creators/publishers out there in the Marketplace 😎).

A few relevant links:

• Don Jayamanne @ GitHub
• Blog post announcement when Don joined Microsoft back in 2017
• Sad Python Girls Club episode with Soojin Choi, the PM for the Jupyter extension
• Don's Git History extension
• Don's Python Environment Manager extension (and our blog post featuring it)
• All of Don's VS Code extensions

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
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