Jason works at Emma as a Systems Software Engineer after spending 15 years as a systems architect and building data centers and cloud architectures for several of the largest tech companies, hospitals, stadiums, and telecomm providers. He's a passionate developer who regularly speaks at local and national events about technology. He's also the chair of the PyTennessee conference. He loves solving human problems, and has a side project, Sucratrend, devoted to helping diabetics manage their condition and improving their quality of life. He has used SQLAlchemy in web, data warehouse and analytics applications.Rick Copeland is the Principal Consultant and Founder at Arborian Consulting, a business focusing on MongoDB and Python custom development and training. Rick is a frequent speaker at MongoDB events, an avid MongoDB enthusiast, and is a charter member of 10gen's Masters of MongoDB. In the non-MongoDB side of things, Rick is also a well-known Python developer and member of the Python Software Foundation, having contributed to a number of open-source projects and spoken at various evens and user groups. Rick is also the author of Essential SQLAlchemy, a book published by O'Reilly that introduces the reader to the excellent SQLAlchemy Python database toolkit.