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Django Weblog: DSF member of the month - Simon Charette
- Simon Charette is the May 2025 Django Software Foundation member of the month, known for his significant contributions to Django over a decade.
- Charette, a principal backend engineer at Zapier, has been a DSF member since November 2014 and is a part of various important teams such as Security and Triage and Review.
- Apart from Django, his passions include cycling, traveling, and playing ultimate frisbee, a sport he has engaged in since college.
- Charette originally chose Django over PHP's Symphony due to its documentation and third-party app ecosystem while working for a web agency.
- If having magical powers, he would enhance Django's adaptability to an async-ready world by addressing the function coloring problem more elegantly.
- Charette is presently working on ORM improvements focusing on a tool to track SQL generated by the Django test suite for easier identification of unintended changes.
- His favorite Django libraries include DRF, django-filter, and his own creation, django-seal.
- Charette's key loves in Django include the people, the ORM, and the framework's diverse entry points for powerful third-party app integration.
- He believes adding support for composite virtual fields in the ORM could significantly enhance relationship expressions between models.
- Charette's advice for contributing to the ORM involves starting small, having fundamental SQL knowledge, and understanding SQL generation processes.
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