Penelope Yong
she/her
https://github.com/penelopeysm
After a quantum chemistry PhD at Oxford, I worked as a research software engineer at The Alan Turing Institute, which included a two-year stint being a core developer on the Turing.jl ecosystem. I still dabble in MCMC packages from time to time, but nowadays I'm more interested in compilers. I'm now maintaining JuliaFormatter and will be starting a new role at Jane Street working on OCaml libraries after JuliaCon!
Session
Turing.jl, a probabilistic programming language, has been undergoing rapid development towards a v1.0 release.
Many new features, fixes, and improvements will have been visible to users — but arguably the most important things I've learnt are not about code!
In this talk I'll reflect on what it’s really like to work on open source software, contextualised throughout with recent examples from Turing.jl’s codebase.