Team
The membership of Django Commons can be viewed on GitHub.
Current Admins#
Django Commons is currently administered by the following people. If you'd like to join them, please open a "New admin" issue at django-commons/membership.
Brian Kohan#
Brian is a software engineer with 19 years of experience in the aerospace sector. He’s been squashing web-shaped problems with Django for the last 9 of those years and is the maintainer of 5 open source Django packages. He lives in Los Angeles with his family where he devotes the balance of his time to organizing his community’s response to homelessness.
You can find out more about Brian on his GitHub page.
Daksh P. Jain#
Daksh P. Jain is a freelance design engineer (read: full-stack engineer and UI/UX designer) with 3 years of professional experience building products people actually enjoy using. Based out of New Delhi, India, he works across backend systems, frontend, cloud, and product design. He is also an active part of the Python community, organizing PyDelhi (Delhi's local Python community), and helping out with Django India and EuroPython.
When he's not overthinking if a design is good, or messing up Django migrations, he's probably playing guitar or going down a rabbit hole in psychology, sociology, or philosophy (and occasionally writing about it too).
You can find out more about Daksh at his website https://daksh.design.
Daniel Moran#
Daniel Moran has been developing tools for software developers for over a decade and maintaining and contributing to different projects (fakeredis, django-tasks-scheduler, GitHub Actions Manager Plugin for JetBrains IDEs). When Daniel isn't writing code, he is travelling the world and practicing speaking in different languages.
You can find out more about Daniel on his LinkedIn page.
Lacey Henschel#
Lacey Henschel is a Python engineer at REVSYS and a longtime contributor to the Django community as a conference organizer, volunteer, and speaker. She organized and coached at several workshops in the first years of Django Girls, and contributed to the Django Girls organizer and coaching docs. Her favorite thing is helping complex topics go from "intimidating" to "totally doable" for people of all experience levels.
You can find out more about Lacey at her website www.laceyhenschel.com.
Ryan Cheley#
Ryan Cheley is a Django enthusiast and one of the maintainers of Django Packages. He's been a Navigator for Djangonaut Space and has spoken at DjangoCon US three times about topics ranging from fixing ORM bugs to building better error culture.
You can find out more about Ryan at his website www.ryancheley.com.
Storm Heg#
Storm is a Wagtail CMS and Django contractor from The Netherlands 🇳🇱. He is involved in the Wagtail community as a member of the core team since 2021 and helps maintain several packages in the Wagtail Nest organization, which has similar goals to Django Commons but for Wagtail. When he is not committing code or preparing a talk for a conference, he enjoys movies, tv shows and random YouTube deep dives on topics such as history or technology. Ask him about something random he learned recently when you see him!
Tilda Udufo#
Tilda is a software engineer and Developer Advocate with a background in open-source community building and mentorship. Through her work with Outreachy as a program organizer, she helped onboard and support dozens of mentoring organisations and hundreds of contributors each year, working to make open source more accessible to people from under-represented backgrounds. She has also mentored with both Outreachy and Google Summer of Code. Her open-source contributions span OCaml, Public Lab, Mozilla, and PyLadies, among others. Outside of tech, she unwinds with Lego builds and a good thriller.
You can find out more about Tilda on her LinkedIn page
Tim Schilling#
Tim is a Django/Python developer who has become very involved in the Django community over the past few years. He started by helping maintain the django-debug-toolbar library and has moved to help in other areas, including Djangonaut Space, Django Commons, and the Django Steering Council (6.x series). Tim also was a DEFNA director and a DjangoCon US organizer. Beyond community organizing Tim likes to bake bread 🍞, ferment hot sauce 🌶️ and as of 2025, roast coffee ☕.
You can find out more about Tim at his website www.better-simple.com.
Past Admins#
There currently are no past members.