Adrian Holovaty is a journalist and computer programmer in Chicago. He is founder of EveryBlock.com, a Web site for neighborhood news and conversation in 16 U.S. cities.

Adrian graduated from the University of Missouri's journalism school in 2001.
After working for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Web site for a year, he took a job with Rob Curley at the Lawrence (Kansas) Journal-World, helping build the technology for several local news Web sites, including lawrence.com, that gained a worldwide reputation.

In 2005 he became editor of editorial innovations at washingtonpost.com, where he built several database-driven online journalism projects.
Also in 2005, he launched a side project called chicagocrime.org, one of the original Google Maps mashups, which organized crime in Chicago by local geography.

In 2007, he was awarded a $1.1 million grant from the Knight Foundation to build a local news site; with this, he hired a small team and built EveryBlock. EveryBlock was acquired by msnbc.com in 2009 and has continued to grow.

Adrian is known in the Web technology world as the co-creator of the Django Web Framework, a tool that helps computer programmers build Web sites efficiently. He coauthored a book on it in 2007.

In his spare time, Adrian plays gypsy-jazz guitar in the style of Django Reinhardt at clubs around Chicago and posts videos of his guitar playing at youtube.com/adrianholovaty where more than 23,000 people have signed up to get notified when he posts a new video.