Django: DSF member of the month - Jake Howard

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For July 2025, we welcome Jake Howard as our DSF member of the month! ⭐

Jake actively shares his knowledge through blog posts and community talks. He is part of the Security Team Working Group and he created the DEP 14. He has been a DSF member since June 2024.
You can learn more about Jake by visiting Jake's website and his GitHub Profile.

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

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

I’m Jake. I’m a Senior Systems Engineer at Torchbox, where I’ve been for a little over 4 years. “Systems Engineer” is a fairly loaded title, and means different things to different people. I like to describe it as doing everything technical to do with Software Engineering which isn’t Programming (Sysadmin, Devops, IT support, Security, Networking), but also doing a fair bit of Programming.

Most of my hobbies revolve around technology. I’m an avid self-hoster, running applications on servers both in “the cloud” and in my house. There’s been a server of some kind in my house for the last 10 years. I’m generally quite a private person, so I like to know what’s happening to my data. Since I started working remotely at the start of the 2020 pandemic, I’ve channeled some of this passion into posts on my website, with posts about all manner of things I’ve done from self-hosting to general software engineering.

Away from my desk (sort of), I’m a volunteer for Student Robotics, inspiring college students into STEM through competitive robotics (no, not quite like Robot Wars). In school, I was always the quiet one, but now I seem completely at home with public speaking, commentary and otherwise b...

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