Tim Peters is a software developer who is known for creating the Timsort hybrid sorting algorithm and for his major contributions to the Python programming language and its original CPython implementation.
[1] He later created the Timsort algorithm (based on earlier work on the use of "galloping" search)[2] which is used in Python since version 2.3 (since version 3.11 using the Powersort merge policy instead of Timsort's original merge policy[3][4]), as well as in other widely used computing platforms,[5][6][7] including the V8 JavaScript engine powering the Google Chrome and Chromium web browsers, as well as Node.js.
[12] From 2001 to 2014 he was active as a member of the Python Software Foundation's board of directors.
[13] He is also a highly ranked contributor to Stack Overflow, mostly for answers relating to Python.
[15][16] Tim Peters was granted the Python Software Foundation's Distinguished Service Award for 2017.