[May 13, 2026] – The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is excited to announce that Hudson River Trading (HRT), a global leader in quantitative trading, has made a commitment to support Python and the PSF as a Visionary Sponsor.
HRT’s "Visionary" sponsorship—our highest tier—will help to support the foundation’s core work of advancing and protecting the Python programming language and supporting a diverse and international community of Python programmers. HRT is the first quantitative trading firm to become a PSF Visionary Sponsor, alongside companies including NVIDIA, Google, Fastly, Bloomberg, Meta, and Anthropic. Contributions at this level directly fund the critical work that keeps Python thriving, including:
- CPython Development: Ensuring the core language remains fast, stable, and modern.
- PyPI Infrastructure: Maintaining the Python Package Index, which serves billions of downloads to developers worldwide.
- Community Programs: Supporting Python workshops, events, and user groups globally, as well as hosting PyCon US each year.
- Security Initiatives: Hardening the ecosystem against supply chain vulnerabilities.
A Shared Commitment to Python
Hudson River Trading is no stranger to the power of Python. As a leading multi-asset class quantitative trading firm, HRT relies on Python for research, data analysis, and engineering workflows. With this donation, HRT is giving back to the tools that empower their engineers and helping to ensure that Python remains flexible, effective, and welcoming in the ways that have made it one of the most popular programming languages in the world. Read more about Open Source at HRT on this page.
“Python is a cornerstone of HRT’s research and trading infrastructure. Our engineers use Python extensively to build cutting-edge tooling that enhances our developer workflows, and we believe strongly in contributing to the open source software that makes our work possible. We are proud to support the PSF as a Visionary Sponsor helping to safeguard Python as a robust, accessible, and community-driven language for years to come.” – Prashant Lal, Partner at Hudson River Trading
“Part of HRT's edge is our engineering, and one of our core values is 'Make It Better'. Our support of the Python Software Foundation – alongside our contributions to many other open source projects – reflects our desire to remain active, collaborative participants in the OSS engineering community over the long term, for the benefit of all.” – Hashem, Lead Software Engineer at Hudson River Trading
“At HRT, we’ve always believed that the best way to advance Python is by working hand-in-hand with the community. Our internal work on lazy imports gave us deep expertise in the problem space, and we channeled that experience directly into open collaboration by contributing to the development of PEP 810. We pride ourselves on being exemplary participants in both the trading markets and the open source community, and our sponsorship of the Python Software Foundation reflects that genuine spirit of collaboration.” – Pablo Galindo Salgado, Lead Software Engineer at Hudson River Trading
As part of its ongoing participation in the Python ecosystem, HRT will be open sourcing some of its own projects and announcing additional OSS contributions later this year. To learn more about HRT’s open engineering, research, and data science roles, visit https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/careers/.
The PSF is grateful for Hudson River Trading’s support, alongside that of each of our Visionary Sponsors, and we hope you will join us in thanking them for their commitment to the PSF and the Python community!
About Hudson River Trading (HRT)
Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a leading quantitative trading firm at the forefront of technical innovation in global financial markets. Every day, we bring together the world’s sharpest minds to collaboratively solve challenging problems and build technology that will drive the future of trading. Leveraging one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development, we trade across asset classes and time horizons on more than 200 markets worldwide. We are a leading voice advocating for fair and transparent markets everywhere and dedicated to creating a better trading landscape for all. For more information, visit www.hudsonrivertrading.com.
About the Python Software Foundation (PSF)
The Python Software Foundation is a US non-profit whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. The PSF supports the Python community using corporate sponsorships, grants, and donations. Are you interested in sponsoring or donating to the PSF so we can continue supporting Python and its community? Check out our sponsorship program, donate directly, or contact our team at sponsors@python.org!
