# Armin Ronacher > Armin Ronacher (May 10, 1989) in Austria is an open source software developer and the creator of the web application development tool, Flask web framework, for ... - Canonical URL: https://iq.wiki/wiki/armin-ronacher - Categories: People in crypto - Tags: Layer 1 - Created: 2023-08-06T01:39:49.578Z - Last updated: 2023-08-06T16:46:25.224Z - Source: IQ.wiki — the world's largest blockchain and crypto encyclopedia (https://iq.wiki) --- **Armin Ronacher** (May 10, 1989) in Austria is an open source software developer and the creator of the web application development tool, Flask web framework, for Python. ![armin.png](https://ipfs.everipedia.org/ipfs/Qmb1EEhBxPKTsb7Pbw9aL4popZjS7yynfGdHPpkMi1JpQ5) He has regularly been a featured speaker at developer conferences. And he has a popular blog on software development and open source. Thoughts and Writings.[2] As a freelance developer he started his work in open source for the German Ubuntu community portal "ubuntuusers".[\[3\]](#cite-id-so3isryo2xq) There, he used the Python programming language and wrote the first implementations for WSGI with the aim to write a Python bulletin board together with Georg Brandl, which was to be called "Pocoo".[\[4\]](#cite-id-s8fvly9o6ob) Which was to be called "Pocoo". **Experience and Contributions** He is the creator of the CMS Lektor. In 2005 he founded the German Ubuntu Association.[\[5\]](#cite-id-ymm5vmvau9f) He has also worked on Plurk, Fireteam and Sentry. **Awards** [\[6\]](#cite-id-vqqksrd7qe) 2003: 2nd place in the Prix Ars Electronica 2003 in the under-19 freestyle computing category for "Be a Bee "13. 2012: Member of the Python Software Foundation14 2014: Community Service Award from the Python Software Foundation for his work in the Python open-source community15 2014: Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant16