I am a scientific software engineer and am fortunate enough to spend most of my time using Python, matplotlib, numpy, scipy etc. for scientific R&D for both my own personal interest and for the benefit of a large scientific community.
I am the original author of Cartopy, am a core developer on matplotlib and iris, and to a lesser extent have made contributions to core python, numpy, scipy, shapely & others.
Find me on github at https://github.com/pelson