Did he already contributed to CPython? What is his nickname on the bug tracker? Can we see his previous contributions?

Davin has already devoted significant time to researching 180+ open issues for multiprocessing and getting up to speed to the history of multiprocessing work. His tracker name is "davin" and his initial contributions are at:

http://bugs.python.org/issue22952 http://bugs.python.org/issue23100

Davin is active in the PyData community and a popular Python instructor. He was the Chief Data Scientist at Continuum (one of the large Python consultancy firms along with Enthought and ActiveState).

Raymond

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/davin-potts/1/b25/606 https://github.com/applio http://www.crunchbase.com/person/davin-potts http://strataconf.com/strata2011/public/schedule/speaker/106479