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# Samuel Colvin

Founder & CEO at Pydantic.

Creator of Pydantic, the most widely used data validation library for Python. Building developer tools for the Python and AI ecosystem.

## Links

- [github](https://github.com/samuelcolvin)
- [twitter](https://x.com/samuelcolvin)
- [linkedin](https://linkedin.com/in/samuel-colvin)
- [website](https://www.scolvin.com/)

## Articles by Samuel Colvin

- [Logfire sandboxes - the Full Monty](https://pydantic.dev/articles/logfire-sandboxes) — 2026-07-15 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/logfire-sandboxes.md))
- [Welcoming Bill Easton as Head of Product](https://pydantic.dev/articles/bill-easton-head-of-product) — 2026-06-01 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/bill-easton-head-of-product.md))
- [Hack Monty 2: a $10,000 bounty to break our Python sandbox](https://pydantic.dev/articles/hack-monty-2) — 2026-05-30 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/hack-monty-2.md))
- [Hack Monty: a $5,000 bounty to break our Python sandbox](https://pydantic.dev/articles/hack-monty) — 2026-04-20 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/hack-monty.md))
- [Pydantic AI Gateway is Moving to Logfire](https://pydantic.dev/articles/gateway-merging-into-logfire) — 2026-03-23 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/gateway-merging-into-logfire.md))
- [Pydantic Monty: you probably don't need a full sandbox](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-monty) — 2026-02-27 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-monty.md))
- [Pydantic Logfire Pricing is Changing](https://pydantic.dev/articles/logfire-pricing-change) — 2025-12-08 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/logfire-pricing-change.md))
- [Announcement: Launching Pydantic AI Gateway](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-ai-gateway) — 2025-11-13 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-ai-gateway.md))
- [Pydantic Open Source Fund](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-oss-fund-2025) — 2025-10-07 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-oss-fund-2025.md))
- [Pydantic AI v1: A Predictable & Robust GenAI Framework](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-ai-v1) — 2025-09-04 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-ai-v1.md))
- [Pydantic Logfire Updates: Dashboards, MCP, Evals & more](https://pydantic.dev/articles/q2-2025-summary) — 2025-07-02 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/q2-2025-summary.md))
- [Pydantic Evals Launched: Open-source evals for AI models](https://pydantic.dev/articles/q1-2025-summary) — 2025-04-02 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/q1-2025-summary.md))
- [Pydantic Logfire Now Available in the EU Region](https://pydantic.dev/articles/eu-region-launch) — 2025-03-26 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/eu-region-launch.md))
- [Announcement: Logfire Cloud & Self-Hosted Versions](https://pydantic.dev/articles/logfire-self-hosting-announcement) — 2025-03-21 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/logfire-self-hosting-announcement.md))
- [Pydantic AI MCP Support & Logfire MCP Server Release](https://pydantic.dev/articles/mcp-launch) — 2025-03-20 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/mcp-launch.md))
- [Pydantic is Hiring Again](https://pydantic.dev/articles/hiring-again) — 2025-03-17 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/hiring-again.md))
- [The Pydantic Open Source Fund](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-oss-fund-2024) — 2024-10-07 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-oss-fund-2024.md))
- [Why is Pydantic building an Observability Platform?](https://pydantic.dev/articles/why-logfire) — 2024-10-01 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/why-logfire.md))
- [Announcement: Pydantic Logfire launch & Series A Funding](https://pydantic.dev/articles/logfire-announcement) — 2024-10-01 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/logfire-announcement.md))
- [Announcement: Pydantic V2 Release](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-v2-final) — 2023-06-30 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-v2-final.md))
- [Help Us Build Our Roadmap](https://pydantic.dev/articles/roadmap) — 2023-06-13 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/roadmap.md))
- [Announcement: Pydantic v2 Pre Release](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-v2-alpha) — 2023-04-03 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-v2-alpha.md))
- [Company Announcement | Pydantic](https://pydantic.dev/articles/company-announcement) — 2023-02-16 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/company-announcement.md))
- [Introducing Pydantic v2 - Key Features](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-v2) — 2022-07-10 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-v2.md))