Yury Selivanov ^#

Yury Selivanov is a Python core developer and has been contributing to the language since 2013. He designed and added async/await to Python, maintained asyncio, and created the widely used uvloop and asyncpg libraries. He was co-founder and CEO of Gel (formerly EdgeDB), the open-source database, and is now Director of Engineering at Vercel, where he leads the Python team building tools to make it easier to build and deploy AI agents in Python. He has spoken at PyCon US, EuroPython, PyCon Canada, and many other conferences, and has spent much of his career designing high-performance concurrent systems: the foundation of the AI SDK he's presenting.