I'm a Debian Developer and experienced Software Architect, I did a small Python layer around the RPC API (see the Wiki). I'm working on other server side Python code (i.e. to calculate exchange rates using bitcoincharts' JSON APIs) and want to write enough code to integrate a custom (Python) shoping cart system with Bitcoin. Maybe the resulting code can be integrated with other systems (i.e. Satchmo). I'm a cryptography expert and did a lot of crypto related implementations (closed source at work) in the last few years. I'm not proficient enough with C++ to help with original Bitcoin code though.