Diego Russo

Diego Russo is a CPython core developer and Principal Software Engineer in Arm’s Runtimes team, based in Cambridge, UK. He has been using Python since 2006 and contributing to CPython since 2023, with a focus on interpreter performance, JIT-related work, CI infrastructure, and ensuring CPython and its ecosystem run reliably and efficiently on Arm platforms. His work sits at the intersection of runtime, performance engineering, and large-scale open source collaboration. Diego is also a EuroPython organiser and leads the Arm Python Guild, an internal community of more than 1,400 Python developers working across the company.