Diego Russo
Diego Russo is a CPython core developer and Head of Software Engineering on Arm's Runtimes team, based in Cambridge (United Kingdom). He has been using Python since 2006 and contributing to CPython since 2023, focusing on interpreter performance, JIT-related work, continuous integration infrastructure, and ensuring that CPython and its ecosystem run reliably and efficiently on Arm platforms. His work sits at the intersection of runtime engineering, performance engineering, and large-scale open source collaboration. Diego is also an EuroPython organizer and leads the Arm Python Guild, an internal community of over 1,400 Python developers working across the company.