Yury Selivanov
Director of engineering at Vercel | Python core developer and creator of uvloop
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Yury Selivanov is a Director of Engineering at Vercel, where he works to build the best Python cloud infrastructure. As a Python core developer since 2013, he has made significant contributions to the language, including the implementation of async/await, async generators, context variables, and exception groups, along with authoring numerous Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs).
Yury is the creator of uvloop and asyncpg, two widely-adopted Python libraries that have become essential tools in the Python ecosystem. He is also the co-founder of Gel, a graph-relational database company.
His work spans the intersection of language development, cloud infrastructure, and database technology, with a focus on advancing Python's capabilities for modern applications and knowledge engineering systems.
What Yury Talks About
Async programming in Python: implementing async/await and async generators
Python language development and the PEP process
Building high-performance Python applications with uvloop and asyncpg
Knowledge engineering and graph-relational databases
Python cloud infrastructure and deployment strategies
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Knowledge Engineering
Yury Selivanov at Data Council 2026
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