Toran Billups is a Senior Software Engineer at IMT Computer Services, a small software company in West Des Moines, Iowa. When he isn't pair programming on the greatest Python team in the Midwest, you can find him evangelizing Ember.js or teaching Python to 5th graders. Toran has been an active member of the Des Moines Python community for the past two years, where he frequently talks about testing and building modern web applications with Django. He also organizes the Des Moines JavaScript user group, where he encourages others to embrace their inner front-end engineer.