Tom Aldcroft is an astrophysicist working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. In addition to science research he has a key responsibility supporting science and mission operations of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Tom has been a core contributor to the Astropy project since its inception, including major work on the Tables, Time and ASCII tables I/O subpackages. He has made contributions to the Python community by leading the development of both the astropython.org site and the python4astronomers site. The latter was the basis for a 7-part tutorial series held on two occasions at the Center for Astrophysics during which he and others taught data analysis using Python. In 2013 he organized the Astronomy mini-symposium and Astronomy BOF at SciPy.