Martijn Pieters is the world’s highest contributor to Python on Stackoverflow.Martijn has worked on developer infrastructure at Facebook; on Zope with Guido Van Rossum, the creator of Python; and on the framework team of Plone, which is used by the CIA and FBI.He has made contributions to Python, Flask, and Mercurial, and currently works as an open source consultant.

In this interview Martijn tells the story of his career. We talk about working at Facebook, what motivates Martijn to answer questions on StackOverflow, and the importance of algorithms and computer science fundamentals.