• 🐍 Python software developer & coach
• 🧠 Co-Founder of Pybites – practical, project-driven Python training
• 📚 I love books / reading, yet my focus is shipping real projects, not just consuming more tutorials.

• PDI – Beginner Coaching: 1:1 support for people taking their first serious steps into Python.

• PDC – Project / Cohort Coaching: Guided, project-based cohorts where you ship real apps and learn modern dev practices. Beginner and intermediate Python, in progress: Rust, Agentic AI, and Django.

• PDM – Professional Developer Mindset: Flagship 1:1 intermediate / advanced program: mentoring, systems, and feedback to grow into a trusted senior developer.

• Pybites Platform: 400+ hands-on Python exercises that teach idiomatic, tested code with instant feedback.

• Rust for Python Devs:

  • Writing at rsbit.es about Rust from a Pythonista’s perspective.
  • Building rustplatform.com with practical Rust exercises and step up to project building in our upcoming Rust cohort coaching program.

• Talk Python “100 Days of Code” courses: Co-created two 100 Days of Code courses with Talk Python (Python and Web dev) to help people level up through daily practice.

• Pybites Books: Django-powered, clutter-free reading tracker to log books, mark favourites, and share what you’re reading — built to inspire reading and help kids (and adults) spend less time on screens.

• Started in support & finance, automating my work with Excel + VBA macros.
• Saw a painful problem: tons of telemetry bundles, no tool to analyse them.
• Built a scrappy PHP app that processed thousands of bundles for hundreds of engineers.
• That project put me on the map: I was pulled into automation work and finally became a full-time developer.

No CS degree — just JIT learning, persistence, and a lot of increasingly complex projects building up real-world experience. 💡

Now I help others escape tutorial hell, ship things, and build careers around it. 🚀

• Escaping tutorial paralysis and designing a project roadmap
• Writing clean, tested, idiomatic Python – and sharing what I’m learning as I dive deeper into Rust and other languages
• Building CLIs, web apps, and automations that actually get used
• Levelling up from “coder” to trusted engineer / senior dev
• Creating systems for consistent learning: exercises, reading, and reflection
• Turning your editor (especially Vim) and terminal into real productivity multipliers –
  Supercharge Your Vim Workflow · 9 Command Line Tips Every Developer Should Know

• Real Python Podcast – Building a Healthy Developer Mindset While Learning Python

• Talk Python To Me

  • Clean Code in Python (Episode #404)
  • 10 Tips Every Django Developer Should Know (Episode #277)
  • 12 Lessons from 100 Days of Web (Episode #224)
  • Level Up Your Python with #100DaysOfCode (Episode #140)

• Python People – Bob Belderbos: Python Challenges, Coaching, Spain

• Teaching Python – Intercontinental Python with Bob and Julian from PyBites

• IT Career Energizer – Own Your Career, Use a Mentor, Set Goals and Make a Plan

• Exploit.chat – On How To Build and Grow Communities in Technology (Founding PyBites)

• The Python Show – PyBites and Python Mentoring with Bob Belderbos

• 💼 LinkedIn – best place to reach out first
• 💬 Pybites Community (Circle) – join our community and connect with me there
• 🐦 X
• 🦋 Bluesky
• 🐘 Mastodon

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