He got his database education when still a kid, coding SQL for the local Democratic Party. Eventually he got into web development, and has been there ever since. Ted created the first web interface for Redis and has written some other Redis open source projects. He's active in the Python and Django communities, and is the organizer of the San Francisco Redis Meetup Group. Ted graduated from Cornell in 2007, where he spent most of his time covering sports for the college newspaper. He lives in Northern California.