Django: DSF member of the month - Simon Charette

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For May 2025, we welcome Simon Charette as our DSF member of the month! ⭐

Simon Charette is a longtime Django contributor and community member. He served on the Django 5.x Steering Council and is part of the Security team and the Triage and Review team. He has been a DSF member since November 2014.
You can learn more about Simon by visiting Simon's GitHub Profile.

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

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

My name is Simon Charette and I'm based in Montréal. I've been contributing to Django for over a decade mainly to the ORM and I have a background in software engineering and mathematics. I work as a principal backend engineer at Zapier where we use Python and Django to power many of our backend services. Outside of Django and work I like to spend time cycling around the world, traveling with my partner, and playing ultimate frisbee.

Out of curiosity, your GitHub profile picture appears to be a Frisbee, is it correct? If so, have you been playing for a long time?

I've been playing ultimate frisbee since college which is around the time I started contributing to Django. It has been a huge part of my life since then as I made many friends and met my partner playing through the years. My commitment to ultimate frisbee can be reflected in my volume of contributions over the past decade as it requires more of my time during certain periods of the year. It also explains why I wasn't able to attend most DjangoCon in spring and fall as this is usuall...

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