David Mertz

David Mertz (born 1964) is an author and columnist for IBM's developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, , and other online publications. He is on the board of directors of the Python Software Foundation, and maintains Gnosis Utilities, a widely used public domain Python package. Formerly an academic philosopher who specialized in postmodernism, he served as vice-president and chief technology officer of the Open Voting Consortium, and on the IEEE Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange project.
Mertz graduated in 1987 from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics. He completed his M.A. in philosophy in 1991 at the University of Massachusetts, and received his Ph.D. from the same university in 1999 for a philosophy thesis. He has held teaching posts in philosophy at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Hartford.
Philosophical journals that Mertz has written for include Social Epistemology, Bioethics, Rethinking Marxism, and Radical Philosophy Review.
Mertz is the author of the book Text Processing in Python, a Haskell programming language tutorial, and papers on computer programming topics such as metaclass programming in Python, multiple dispatch, and cryptology. He writes the programming columns Charming Python and XML Matters.
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