Adding bios.

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 \section*{Contributors}
 
-\hspace{\parindent} \emph{Michael DiBernardo (editorial)}: Hi.
+\hspace{\parindent} \emph{Michael DiBernardo (editorial)}: TODO.
 
-\emph{Michael Snoyman (Warp)}: Michael is the lead software engineer at FP Complete. He is the founder and lead developer of the Yesod Web Framework, which provides a means of creating robust, high-performance web applications. His formal studies include actuarial science, and he has previously worked in the US auto and homeowner insurance industry analyzing large data sets.
+\hspace{\parindent} \emph{Amy Brown (editorial)}: TODO.
 
-\emph{Kazu Yamamoto (Warp)}: Kazu is a senior researcher of IIJ Innovation Institute. He has been working for open source software around 20 years. His products include Mew, KAME, Firemacs and mighty.
+\emph{Dethe Elza (Blockcode)}: Dethe is a geek dad, aesthetic programmer, mentor, and creator of the Waterbear visual programming tool. He co-hosts the Vancouver Maker Education Salons and wants to fill the world with robotic origami rabbits. 
 
-\emph{Andreas Voellmy (Warp)}: Andreas is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Yale University. Andreas uses Haskell in his research on software-defined networks and has published open source Haskell packages, such as nettle-openflow, for controlling routers using Haskell programs. Andreas also contributes to the GHC project and is a maintainer of GHC's IO manager.
+\emph{Malini Das (CI)}: Malini is a software engineer who is passionate about developing quickly (but safely!), and solving cross-functional problems. She has worked at Mozilla as a tools engineer and is currently honing her skills at Twitch. 
 
-\emph{Ilya Grigorik (Chrome)}: Ilya is a web performance engineer and developer advocate on the Make The Web Fast team at Google, where he spends his days and nights on making the web fast and driving adoption of performance best practices. You can find Ilya online on his blog at \url{igvita.com} and under \code{@igrigorik} on Twitter.  
+\emph{Dustin J. Mitchell (Cluster)}: Dustin is an open source software developer and release engineer at Mozilla. He has worked on projects as varied as a host configuration system in Puppet, a Flask-based web framework, unit tests for firewall configurations, and a continuous integration framework in Twisted Python. 
 
-\emph{Evan Martin (Ninja)}:
-Evan has been a programmer at Google for nine years.  His background before that includes degrees in computer science and linguistics.  He has hacked on many minor free software projects and a few major ones, including LiveJournal.  His website is \url{http://neugierig.org}.
+\emph{Daniel Rocco (Contingent)}: Daniel loves Python, coffee, craft, stout, object and system design, bourbon, teaching, trees, and Latin guitar. Thrilled that he gets to write Python for a living, he is always on the lookout for opportunities to learn from others in the community, and to contribute by sharing knowledge. He is a frequent speaker at PyAtl on introductory topics, testing, design, and shiny things; he loves seeing the spark of wonder and delight in people's eyes when someone shares a novel, surprising, or beautiful idea. Daniel lives in Atlanta with a microbiologist and four aspiring rocketeers.
 
-\emph{Bryce Howard (Mobile Performance)}: 
-Bryce is a software architect who obsesses about making things go fast. He has 15+ years in the industry, and has worked for a number of startups you've never heard of. He is currently taking a stab at this whole ``writing'' thing and authoring an introductory Amazon Web Services book for O'Reilly Associates.
+\emph{Brandon Rhodes (Contingent)}: Brandon Rhodes started using Python in the late 1990s, and for 17 years has maintained the PyEphem library for amateur astronomers. He works at Dropbox, has taught Python programming courses for corporate clients, consulted on projects like the New England Wildflower Society's ``Go Botany'' Django site, and will be the chair of the PyCon conference in 2016 and 2017. Brandon believes that well-written code is a form of literature, that beautifully formatted code is a work of graphic design, and that correct code is one of the most transparent forms of thought.
 
-\emph{Kyle Huey (Memshrink)}:
-Kyle works at the Mozilla Corporation on the Gecko rendering engine
-that powers the Firefox web browser.  He earned a Bachelor's degree in
-mathematics from the University of Florida before moving to San Francisco.
-He blogs at \url{blog.kylehuey.com}.
+\emph{A. Jesse Jiryu Davis (Crawler)}: Jesse is a staff engineer at MongoDB in New York. He wrote Motor, the async MongoDB Python driver, and he is the lead developer of the MongoDB C Driver and a member of the PyMongo team. He contributes to asyncio and Tornado. He writes at \url{emptysqua.re}.
 
-\emph{Clint Talbert (Talos)}: Clint has been involved in the Mozilla project for almost a decade, first as a volunteer and then as an employee. He currently leads the Automation and Tools team with a mandate to automate everything that can be automated, and a personal vendetta to eliminate idle cycles on any automation machine. You can follow his adventures in open source and writing at \url{clinttalbert.com}.  
+\emph{Guido van Rossum (Crawler)}: Guido is the creator of Python, one of the major programming languages on and off the web. The Python community refers to him as the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), a title straight from a Monty Python skit.  Guido's home on the web is \url{www.python.org/~guido/}.
 
-\emph{Joel Maher (Talos)}: Joel has over 15 years of experience automating software.  In the last 5 years at Mozilla, Joel has hacked the automation and tools at Mozilla to extend to mobile phones as well as taken ownership of Talos to expand tests, reliability and improve regression detection.  While his automation is running, Joel likes to get outdoors and tackle new challenges in life.  For more automation adventures, follow along at \url{elvis314.wordpress.com}.
+\emph{Dann Toliver (Dagoba)}: Dann enjoys building things, like programming languages, databases, distributed systems, communities of smart friendly humans, and pony castles with his two year old.
 
-\emph{Audrey Tang (Ethercalc)}: A self-educated programmer and translator based in Taiwan, Audrey currently works at Socialtext with the job title ``Untitled Page'', as well as at Apple on localization and release engineering. Audrey has previously designed and led the Pugs project, the first working Perl 6 implementation, and served in language design committees for Haskell, Perl 5, and Perl 6, with numerous contributions to CPAN and Hackage. Follow Audrey on Twitter at \code{@audreyt}.
+\emph{Taavi Burns (DBDB)}: As the newest bass (and sometimes tenor) in Countermeasure, Taavi strives to break the mould\ldots sometimes just by ignoring its existence. This is certainly true through the diversity of workplaces in his career: IBM (doing C and Perl), FreshBooks (all the things), Points.com (doing Python), and now at PagerDuty (doing Scala).  Aside from that—when not gliding along on his Brompton folding bike—you might find him playing Minecraft with his son or engaging in parkour (or rock climbing, or other adventures) with his wife. He knits continental.
 
+\emph{Leo Zovic}: TODO
 
-\emph{C.\,Titus Brown (Khmer)}: Titus has worked in evolutionary modeling, physical meteorology, developmental biology, genomics, and bioinformatics. He is now an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, where he has expanded his interests into several new areas, including reproducibility and maintainability of scientific software. He is also a member of the Python Software Foundation, and blogs at \url{http://ivory.idyll.org}.
+\emph{Dr.\@ Christian Muise (Flow shop)}: Dr.\@ Muise is a Research Fellow with the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is interested in a variety of topics including AI, data-driven projects, mapping, graph theory, and data visualization, as well as celtic music, carving, soccer, and coffee.
 
-\emph{Eric McDonald (Khmer)}: Eric McDonald is a developer of scientific software with an emphasis on high performance computing (HPC), the area in which he has worked much of the past 13 years. Having previously worked with several varieties of physicists, he now helps  bioinformaticians. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics. Eric has been a fan of FOSS since the mid-nineties.
+\emph{Yoav Rubin (CircleDB)}: Yoav is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, and prior to that was a Research Staff Member and a Master Inventor at IBM Research. He works now in the domain of data security in the cloud, and in the past his work focused on developing cloud or web based development environments. Yoav holds an M.Sc.\ in Medical Research in the field of Neuroscience and B.Sc in Information Systems Engineering. 
 
-\emph{Douglas C. Schmidt (DaNCE)}: Dr.\@ Douglas C.\@ Schmidt is a Professor of Computer Science, Associate Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering program, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute at Software Integrated Systems, all at Vanderbilt University.  Doug has published 10 books and more than 500 technical papers covering a wide range of software-related topics, and led the development of ACE, TAO, CIAO, and CoSMIC for the past two decades.
+\emph{Cate Huston (Image filters)}: Cate is a developer and entrepreneur focused on mobile. She’s lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Canada, China and the United States, as an engineer at Google, an Extreme Blue intern at IBM, and a ski instructor. Cate speaks internationally on mobile development and her writing has been published on sites as varied as Lifehacker, The Daily Beast, The Eloquent Woman and Model View Culture. She co-curates Technically Speaking, blogs at Accidentally in Code and is \url{@catehstn} on Twitter.
 
-\emph{Aniruddha Gokhale (DaNCE)}: Dr.\@ Aniruddha S. Gokhale is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) both at Vanderbilt University. He has over 140 technical articles to his credit, and his current research focuses on developing novel solutions to emerging challenges in cloud computing and cyber physical systems.
+\emph{Allison Kaptur (Interpreter)}: Allison is an engineer at Dropbox, where she helps maintain one of the largest networks of Python clients in the world. Before Dropbox, she was a facilitator at the Recurse Center, a writers retreat for programmers in New York. She's spoken at PyCon North America about Python internals and loves weird bugs.
 
-\emph{William R. Otte (DaNCE)}: Dr.\@ William R. Otte is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University.  He has nearly a decade of experience developing open source middleware and modeling tools for distributed, real-time and embedded systems, working with both government and industrial partners including DARPA, NASA, Northrup Grumman and Lockheed-Martin. He has published numerous technical articles and reports describing these advances and has participated in the development of open standards for component middleware.
+\emph{Erick Dransch (Modeller)}: Erick is a software developer and 2D and 3D computer graphics enthusiast. He has worked on video games, 3D special effects software, and computer aided design tools. If it involves simulating reality, chances are he'd like to learn more about it. You can find him online at \url{erickdransch.com}.
 
-\emph{Manik Surtani (Infinispan)}: Manik is a core R\&D engineer at JBoss, Red Hat's middleware division. He is the founder of the Infinispan project, and Platform Architect of the JBoss Data Grid. He is also the spec lead of JSR 347 (Data Grids for the Java Platform), and represents Red Hat on the Expert Group of JSR 107 (Temporary caching for Java). His interests lie in cloud and distributed computing, big data and NoSQL, autonomous systems and highly available computing. 
+\emph{Carl Friedrich Bolz (Object model)}: Carl is a researcher at King's College London and is broadly interested in the implementation and optimization of all kinds of dynamic languages. He is one of the core authors of PyPy/RPython and has worked on implementations of Prolog, Racket, Smalltalk, PHP and Ruby. 
 
-\emph{Arseny Kapoulkine (Pugixml)}: Arseny has spent his entire career programming graphics and low-level systems in video games, ranging from small niche titles to multi-platform AAA blockbusters such as FIFA Soccer. He enjoys making slow things fast and fast things even faster. He can be reached at \code{mail@zeuxcg.org} or on Twitter \code{@zeuxcg}.
+\emph{Marina Samuel (OCR)}: TODO
 
-\emph{Arjan Scherpenisse (Zotonic)}: Arjan is one of the main architects of Zotonic and manages to work on dozens of projects at the same time, mostly using Zotonic and Erlang. Arjan bridges the gap between back-end and front-end Erlang projects. Besides issues like scalability and performance, Arjan  is often involved in creative projects. Arjan is a regular speaker at events.
+\emph{Dessy Daskalov (Pedometer)}: Dessy is an engineer by trade, an entrepreneur by passion, and a developer at heart. She's currently the CTO and co-founder of Nudge Rewards. When she’s not busy building product with her team, she can be found teaching others to code, attending or hosting a Toronto tech event, and online at \url{dessydaskalov.com} and \url{@dess_e}.
 
-\emph{Marc Worrell (Zotonic)}: Marc is a respected member of the Erlang community and was the initiator of the Zotonic project. Marc spends his time consulting for large Erlang projects, the development of Zotonic and is the CTO of Maximonster, the builders of MaxClass and LearnStone.
+\emph{Eunsuk Kang (Same-origin policy)}: Eunsuk is a PhD candidate and a member of the Software Design Group at MIT. He received his SM (Master of Science) in Computer Science from MIT (2010), and a Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo (2007). His research projects have focused on developing tools and techniques for software modeling and verification, with applications to security and safety-critical systems.
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+\emph{Santiago Perez (Same-origin policy)}: Santiago is a PhD student in the Software Design Group at MIT. He received his SM in Computer Science from MIT (2015), and an undergraduate degree from ITBA (2011). He used to work at Google, developing frameworks and tools to make engineers more productive (2012). He currently spends most of his time thinking about design and version control.
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+\emph{Daniel Jackson (Same-origin policy)}: Daniel is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and leads the Software Design Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received an MA from Oxford University (1984) in Physics, and his SM (1988) and PhD (1992) in Computer Science from MIT. He was a software engineer for Logica UK Ltd. (1984-1986), Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (1992-1997), and has been at MIT since 1997. He has broad interests in software engineering, especially in development methods, design and specification, formal methods, and safety critical systems.
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+\emph{Jessica B. Hamrick (Sampler)}: Jess is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley where she studies human cognition by combining probabilistic models from machine learning with behavioral experiments from cognitive science. In her spare time, Jess is a core contributor to IPython and Jupyter. She also holds a B.S. and M.Eng. in Computer Science from MIT.
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+\emph{Audrey Tang (Spreadsheet)}: A self-educated programmer and translator, Audrey works with Apple as an independent contractor on cloud service localization and natural language technologies. Audrey has previously designed and led the first working Perl 6 implementation, and served in computer language design committees for Haskell, Perl 5, and Perl 6. Currently Audrey is a full-time g0v contributor and leads Taiwan’s first e-Rulemaking project.
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+\emph{Leah Hanson (Static analysis)}: Leah Hanson is a proud alumni of Hacker School and loves helping people learn about Julia. She blogs at \url{blog.leahhanson.us} and tweets at \url{@astrieanna}.
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+\emph{Ned Batchelder (Template engine)}: Ned is a software engineer with a long career, currently working at edX to build open source software to educate the world.  He's the maintainer of coverage.py, an organizer of Boston Python, and has spoken at many PyCons.  He blogs at \url{nedbatchelder.com}. He once had dinner at the White House.
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+\emph{Greg Wilson (Web server)}: Greg is the founder of Software Carpentry, a crash course in computing skills for scientists and engineers.  He has worked for 30 years in both industry and academia, and is the author or editor of several books on computing, including the 2008 Jolt Award winner \emph{Beautiful Code} and the first two volumes of \emph{The Architecture of Open Source Applications}. Greg received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1993.
 
 \section*{Acknowledgments}