Django: DSF member of the month - Clifford Gama

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For December 2025, we welcome Clifford Gama as our DSF member of the month! ⭐

Clifford contributed to Django core with more than 5 PRs merged in few months! He is part of the Triage and Review Team. He has been a DSF member since October 2024.

You can learn more about Clifford by visiting Clifford's website and his GitHub Profile.

Let’s spend some time getting to know Clifford better!

Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc)

I'm Clifford. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe.

How did you start using Django?

During my first year in college, I was also exploring open online courses on EDx and I came across CS50's introduction to web development. After watching the introductory lecture -- which introduced me to git and GitHub -- I discovered Django's excellent documentation and got started on the polls tutorial. The docs were so comprehensive and helpful I never felt the need to return to CS50. (I generally prefer comprehensive first-hand, written learning material over summaries and videos.)

At the time, I had already experimented with flask, but I guess mainly because I didn't know SQL and because flask didn't have an ORM, I never quite picked it up. With Django I felt like I was taking a learning fast-track where I'd learn everything I needed in one go!

And that's how I started using Django.

What projects are you working on now?

At the moment, I’ve been focusing on improving my core skills in preparation for remote work, so I haven’t been starting new projects because of that.

That said, I’ve been working on a client project involving generating large, image-heavy...

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