Benjamin V. Root has been a member of the Matplotlib development team since 2010. His main areas of development have been the documentation and the mplot3d toolkit, but now he focuses on code reviews and debugging. Ben is also an active member of mailing lists, using his expertise to help newcomers understand Matplotlib. He is a meteorology graduate student, working part-time on his PhD dissertation. He works full-time for Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. as a scientific programmer.