Josiah Carlson

Dr. Josiah Carlson Ph.D. is an American Theoretical Computer Scientist, best well known for his book on Redis; Redis in Action, his talks on Redis and/or Python, his open source libraries relating to Python, Redis, Lua, thousands of public mailing list posts relating to Redis, Python, wxPython, and/or data compression, as well as a handful of blog posts. Professionally, the good doctor has worked on email anti-spam, text search, non-binary classification, GPS navigation, data compression, streaming video, social networks, web ads, core database technology, business finance, and generic ETL pipelines. In open source, Josiah offers timezone-aware cron libraries for Python, a SQLAlchemy-like object layer for Redis, task queue schedulers, and more.