Samuel Colvin
Official Role
Founder & CEO at Pydantic.
Official Bio
Samuel Colvin is a Python and Rust developer and the founder of Pydantic Inc., backed by Sequoia. With over 13 years of software engineering experience, he created Pydantic Validation, an open source library downloaded over 550M times per month and a core dependency of virtually every GenAI Python library. Samuel has also built Pydantic Logfire (developer-first observability), Pydantic AI (agent framework), Pydantic Evals (AI evaluation), and Pydantic AI Gateway (model routing) and Pydantic Monty (a python implementation, in rust, for LLMs to run code without host access). Samuel maintains an active presence in the developer community through GitHub and X (@samuelcolvin), where he shares his work, engages with other developers, and posts his opinionated takes.
Scheduled Sessions
- 2026 06 30 samuel colvin your agent needs a sandbox not a desert — Your agent needs a sandbox, not a desert (2026-06-30, 12:05pm-12:25pm)