Who Uses Python in the Pacific Northwest?
A list of companies and organizations using Python, and what they're using it for.
Those marked "?" are believed to use Python but we're not 100% sure.
Washington
Large organizations
Microsoft: publisher and current developer of IronPython. (IronPython was created by Jim Huginin who was subsequently hired by Microsoft.)
- University of Washington: computer science department.
- Boeing: Python is a "Boeing Standard" language as is C/C++, Java, VB, and C#. Conservatively, Python is being used on dozens of projects, some big, some small. Where exactly is not for public dissemination. (BTW, Boeing is headquartered in Chicago with major operations in Puget Sound, Southern California, and St Louis. Significant operations exist in a number of other parts of the country.)
- Amazon: some groups use it.
- Disney: some groups use it.
- Vulcan: internal database apps.
- Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center: ?
- Google: one of three main languages for internal development. Supported language in App Engine.
- Adobe?
Smaller organizations
- Isilon Systems
- Python/Plone consultants: ONE/Northwest, NPower
LG Consulting tends to place people in Python positions. Use their "Contact" page to get a hold of them, if you don't already know someone in the company.
Web Collective, Inc: Plone, Django, and Python consultants.
- The Glosten Associates: scientific calculations with numpy/scipy/matplotlib/tecplot
Cozi has been writing its web services in Python since mid-2008.
White Pages?: Python, Django
New Bay Software: uses homegrown Python for automated testing
Oregon
Simler: Python, diminishing Django, JQuery, JSON, and AJAX.
British Columbia
Python consultants: ActiveState, Damn Simple Solutions.
- Nokia
- Electronic Arts
Convergent Manufacturing Technologies, Inc: Aerospace/composites-related engineering software using numpy/scipy/matplotlib
Outside the Northwest
Python.org maintains a list of Python success stories, [[http://www.python.org/about/apps/|application domains]] where Python is used, and testimonials about Python.
NeauralIQ in Santa Monica, CA and possibly Bellevue, WA
- Google: one of three main languages for internal development. Supported language in App Engine.
- NOAA: scientific calculations, websites, Plone sites, mapping applications.
- Cisco: VoIP application development
- Disney Interactive Media Group: Tools automation and internal web sites (Django)
- ESRI: Packaged with desktop software and used for automating processes.
Schools teaching Python
None known.