Rick Copeland is the principal consultant at Arborian Consulting, LLC, where he helps clients build custom web applications using Python and MongoDB. He previously worked as a lead software engineer at SourceForge, where he helped lead the transformation from a PHP/Postgres/MySQL codebase to a Python/MongoDB codebase. Rick is the primary author of Ming, a Python object mapper for MongoDB, and Zarkov, a realtime analytics platform based on MongoDB. Prior to GeekNet, Rick worked in fields from retail analytics to hardware chip design. Rick's personal blog is hosted at Just a Little Python.