Marc-Andre is the CEO and founder of eGenix.com, a Python-focused project and consulting company based in Germany. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Düsseldorf. His work with and for Python started in Winter 1993. In 1997, he became a Python Core Developer. He designed and implemented the Unicode support in Python 1.6 and continues to maintain the Python Unicode implementation to date. Marc-Andre is a founding member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and served on the board several times. He is also the author of the well-known mx Extensions, e.g. mxTools, mxDateTime and mxODBC, which are now distributed and maintained through eGenix.com. Today Marc-Andre spends most of his time managing large-scale eGenix customer projects heavily relying on Python and databases.