Hi, I’m Will.

Currently, I’m a Developer Advocate at JetBrains focused primarily on the PyCharm IDE. I am a Python Software Foundation Fellow and former Django Board Member, which speaks to the fact I’ve been involved in both communities for a while, more than anything else.

I’ve written three books that are now in their fifth editions: Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals. I also run the website LearnDjango.com and since 2019 have co-hosted the Django Chat podcast and co-written the weekly Django News newsletter.

Previously, I was the third employee at Quizlet, an early employee at Meta Search, which was acquired, and the founder and co-founder respectively of two other startups that no longer exist. I also taught computer science at Williams College.

These days I spend my time trying to sort out what AI means for all of us, frequently give conference talks, and maintain a number of open source packages.

As a final note, I’m an avid reader and keep a mostly up-to-date list of books I’ve read and recommend over here.

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Contact Info

• Email: will@wsvincent.com - my preferred contact method. If you have general questions on Django I recommend the Official Django Forum.
• Socials: GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, BlueSky.

Books

Django Chat Podcast

A podcast on Django co-hosted with Django Fellow Carlton Gibson featuring interviews with leading members of the community.

Django News Newsletter

A weekly newsletter co-written with Jeff Triplett that features news, articles, events, projects, podcasts, and more all focused on Django.

Selected Projects

• Awesome Django - curated list of awesome Django resources
• Lithium - starter framework for new Django projects
• DRFX - starter framework for new Django REST Framework projects
• DjangoBook.com - currently in-print books and courses on Django

Talks

Links include full slide decks and related GitHub repositories.

• Django for AI - DjangoCon US (September 2025)

• Django for Data Science - DjangoCon Europe Keynote (April 2025)

• Django for Data Science: Deploying Machine Learning Models with Django - Boston Python Meetup (March 2025)

• The Django User Model: Past, Present, Future - DjangoCon US (September 2024)

• The Django JigSaw Puzzle - DjangoCon US (October 2022)

• Search From The Ground Up - DjangoCon US (September 2019)

• Finally Understand User Authentication in Django REST Framework - DjangoCon US (September 2018)

• Django APIs and React - Django Boston (May 2018)
• 8 Reasons Why Learning Django is Hard - Django Boston (January 2019)

Podcast Guest Appearances

• Talk Python: Celebrating Django’s 20th Birthday With Its Creators (August 2025)
• The Python Show - Django (June 2024)
• Python People - Django, Writing Technical Books (January 2024)
• Test and Code - Testing Django Web Applications (April 2023)
• Python Bytes - From Prototype to Production in Django (October 2020)
• Profitable Python - Professional Developer Resources for Django (December 2019)
• Frontmatter - Self-Publishing and Changes in the Book Industry (July 2019)
• Talk Python - Teaching Django (December 2018)
• Podcast.init - The Business Of Technical Authoring (September 2018)