About me

Hi, I’m Will Vincent, a Developer Advocate at JetBrains, a former Board Member of the Django Software Foundation and the author of three books on Django. Since 2019 I’ve co-hosted the Django Chat podcast, co-written the weekly Django News newsletter, and run LearnDjango.com. I also maintain several open source packages, frequently give conference talks, and previously taught computer science at Williams College.

I’m an avid reader and keep a mostly up-to-date list of books I’ve read and recommend over here.

Details

• Email: [email protected] - my preferred contact method. If you have general questions on Django I recommend the Official Django Forum.
• GitHub: @wsvincent
• Mastodon: @[email protected]
• BlueSky: @wsvincent
• LinkedIn: william-s-vincent/

Books

Django Chat Podcast

A podcast on Django co-hosted with Django Fellow Carlton Gibson featuring interviews with leading members of the community.

Django News Newsletter

A weekly newsletter co-written with Jeff Triplett that features news, articles, events, projects, podcasts, and more all focused on Django.

Selected Projects

• Awesome Django - curated list of awesome Django resources
• Lithium - starter framework for new Django projects
• DRFX - starter framework for new Django REST Framework projects
• DjangoBook.com - currently in-print books and courses on Django

Talks

Links include full slide decks and related GitHub repositories.

• Django for Data Science - DjangoCon Europe Keynote (April 2025)

• Django for Data Science: Deploying Machine Learning Models with Django - Boston Python Meetup (March 2025)

• The Django User Model: Past, Present, Future - DjangoCon Europe (February 2024)

• The Django JigSaw Puzzle - DjangoCon Europe (November 2022)

• Search From The Ground Up - DjangoCon US (September 2019)

• Finally Understand User Authentication in Django REST Framework - DjangoCon US (September 2018)

• Django APIs and React - Django Boston (May 2018)
• 8 Reasons Why Learning Django is Hard - Django Boston (January 2019)

Podcast Guest Appearances

• The Python Show - Django (June 2024)
• Python People - Django, Writing Technical Books (January 2024)
• Test and Code - Testing Django Web Applications (April 2023)
• Python Bytes - From Prototype to Production in Django (October 2020)
• Profitable Python - Professional Developer Resources for Django (December 2019)
• Frontmatter - Self-Publishing and Changes in the Book Industry (July 2019)
• Talk Python - Teaching Django (December 2018)
• Podcast.__init__ - The Business Of Technical Authoring (September 2018)