Thea Flowers

Thea is an artist, engineer, writer, and open source advocate. Her personal mission is to empower creativity for all using open source hardware and software. She’s currently running an open source synthesizer company, Winterbloom, where she takes on everything including hardware design, firmware, documentation, and manufacturing. She is working with other small/medium scale manufacturers to bring traditionally expensive manufacturing techniques within the grasp of independent designers.

Thea is known for her engaging and interactive technical writing, her broad engineering experience, and her fondness of weasels. Thea has been named a Python Software Foundation fellow for her leadership, community organization, and technical contributions in the Python community. She’s also one of the maintainers of CircuitPython.