PyCon AU 2025

Alex is a student at ANU, currently completing her honours in computer science. She has been a long time lover of languages, both for computers and people, and is always willing to share her passion for niche programming language features.

When she isn't dreaming of syntax trees and compiler optimisations, Alex enjoys playing the organ, board games, baking and being snobby about tea ☕.

I am a Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat and I work creating test frameworks and test automation in Python, Golang and Ruby. I am also a passionate programmer and an Open Source and Agile Testing enthusiast.

Ankur is a Senior Data & Cloud Engineer at Innablr, working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and modern data platforms. Based in Melbourne, he helps teams design efficient pipelines and scale analytics using tools like DuckDB, Databricks, and dbt.

Outside of work, he’s an anime nerd and a firm believer that ducks are objectively the coolest animals. Ankur thinks good tooling should feel like magic, bad tooling should be deleted, and Jupyter notebooks should come with a warning label.

Anneysha is a Computer Science student at the Australian National University, currently in her Honours year. She is passionate about accessible and inclusive HCI design.

Anthony is from Sydney, Australia and is a contributor to many open-source communities. Running and contributing to several popular open-source tools for DevOps, Security, Automation and Code Quality. He has been recognized for his contribution to open source, including as Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and member of the Apache Software Foundation. Anthony runs a Python blog and YouTube channel and wrote the book "CPython Internals"

Benno is widely known as someone with opinions and a (possibly over-)willingness to share them. He has been working with computers professionally for over 30 years (unprofessionally for longer) and takes particular joy in examining how computers, the Internet, and all that surrounds all of these intersects with the humanity that it is meant to help.

Boaz is a software engineer with an interest in applied machine learning. He has previously worked in control systems, working on gimbals and self-balancing bicycles. He loves Python and working with Django.

Brooks Smith is a Chartered structural engineer with a passion for both research and software development, and a vision to making structural design safer, easier, and more efficient. He is currently a Principal Engineer (by both definitions of the word "Engineer") at the Melbourne, Australia head office of ClearCalcs, a cloud-based platform providing structural design calculators around the world. In his free time, he is an active member of the open source software community, and is the lead maintainer of structural engineering software packages anaStruct and pyCUFSM. While he has lived in Australia for the last 7 years, he grew up in the United States, earning his Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his dual Bachelors degrees from Dartmouth College and its Thayer School of Engineering.

I am a Lighter and Pipeline TD with a background in Software Engineering and Systems Administration, and have been programming (professionally and otherwise) for over 20 years, of which I've been writing Python for over 10. I have been employed in the Creative Industries for the better part of my career, in both supportive and creative roles.

Caleb is a Senior Software Engineer working for Google's Open Source Security Team. At Google he contributes to deps.dev and maintains a repository of malicious package reports for open source packages. Caleb has been using Python for over 15 years, starting with build Django sites at publishing companies.

Christopher Neugebauer is an Australian developer, speaker, and serial community conference organiser, who presently lives in the United States.

He serves as a Director of the Python Software Foundation, and is co-organiser of the acclaimed North Bay Python conference, a boutique one-track conference run in unusual venues — include an old vaudeville theatre, and more recently a barn on a farm — in Petaluma, California.

Chris is a software engineer passionate about the intersection of neuroscience, machine learning, and quantum computing.

He’s currently a Staff Software Engineer at Q-CTRL, building applications to tune and optimize quantum computers. Previously, he was the CTO and co-founder of startups in online education and brain-computer interfaces.

Outside of work, Chris enjoys exploring new technologies, hiking along Australia's coasts and bushland, and playing video games.

David is an transformative technology leader, with over 25 years’ experience across data and AI, digital and change. David combines diverse experience delivering complex technology solutions with his passion for customer outcomes to develop high performing teams capable of solving complex problems.

David is an author of Effective Machine Learning Teams and leads Data Platforms and Products at MYOB.

I'm a Lead ML Engineer with over 10 years of experience in building systems across startups, research, and public sector work. I run a consultancy called Loom Labs, helping teams turn AI ideas into working products.

Dipendra is a Solution Architect at Cater Care. He brings together experience in finance, tech support, and systems analysis to bridge business and technology. He collaborates across teams to streamline processes, drive digital transformation, and create better user experiences, always with a focus on practical, people-first solutions.

A passionate advocate for open source and developer culture, Dipendra works mainly with Python, Django, React, and Google Cloud (with a special interest in serverless). He’s committed to making IT smarter, fostering innovation, and helping teams work better together.

Dr. Swapnilsony Singh (She/Her) is a visionary Social and Economic Impact leader, currently serving as Manager – Client Value and Optimisation at Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand. With a PhD in Microfinance and over a decade of experience spanning financial inclusion, sustainability, and circular economy, she is dedicated to leveraging technology and human-centered innovation to create lasting social impact.

At Good Shepherd ANZ, Dr. Singh leads the design and delivery of AI-powered systems for social inclusion, including the award-winning AnswerSmart—an intelligent agent built to support frontline workers through real-time, equitable knowledge access. Her work blends agentic AI, digital transformation, and service design to support vulnerable communities more efficiently and ethically.

Previously, Dr. Singh served as Global Head of People Function & Strategy at Decision Minds and as CEO & Co-Founder of Consulytics, where she built ezInclusion, a pioneering analytics platform for microfinance institutions. She has also contributed to global social good initiatives through the United Nations Volunteers, with a focus on sustainable energy and economic empowerment.

Recognized for her thought leadership in responsible innovation, she is passionate about building solutions that respect human dignity, empower women and migrants, and bridge the digital divide. Her work is driven by the belief that technology should amplify compassion, not replace it.

Tom is an Australian engineer with a background in robotics, a wealth of software experience, and a handful of successes in the startup world. He has spent the last fifteen years in consulting and permanent roles across various industries while working on side projects and startups by night.

His first love is working in the field of mechatronics, at the intersection of software and hardware. To this end Tom has worked in engineering teams building medical devices, self-driving cars, optical radar, autonomous wheelchairs, internet services, and various consumer products. For the last seven years he's led software teams as a CTO, Head of Engineering, and Director of Software.

Tom holds a B.E./B.Sc. from Sydney University majoring in Mechatronics and Computational Physics, and a Ph.D. from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics.

Dr Duy Nguyen is currently a Research Fellow in the CSIRO Environment Research Unit, with expertise in Environmental Fluid Dynamics, turbulence modelling, numerical methods, and water quality modelling. His research involves hydrodynamic and water quality modelling of oceans, lakes, and rivers, combined with emerging satellite and hyperspectral and multispectral imagery technologies, and in situ and remote sensing of water quantity and quality. Duy is also a key model developer at the CSIRO AquaWatch Program and the Digital Water & Landscapes Program, where he integrates process-based, AI/ML, and large data streams from remote sensing to model and forecast water quality and quantity. Duy leads the Vietnam AquaWatch pilot, where the team is building a monitoring and forecasting water quality system for the inland aquaculture.

Duy is serving as chair of several associations, including the CSIRO Australia National Early Research Career Committee, the Group on Earth Observation AquaWatch Early Career Society, and was a committee member of the Early-Mid Career Research at the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. Duy has won several awards from universities and governments, including in research, teaching, and education, as well as in services and social engagements.

Edwin began teaching IT in the Senior Secondary Sector of the ACT in 2014. Since then he has used a variety of languages and platforms for delivery, from Basic, to C# and most recently Python. Starting at Gungahlin College in 2014 and overseeing the school's IT program when it had the highest number of IT enrolments of any secondary college in the ACT, he now works at Burgmann Anglican School and continues his emphasis on student led, project based learning.

Edwin manages multiple workshops throughout the year to help support local schools' education of IT, provide students with industry connections, and allow local industries to see what the students are capable of. He believes that IT is an incredible tool that can be combined with a variety of passions to create unique and world changing projects. If all students are taught IT foundations, in addition to the problem solving skills and knowledge they’ll acquire, it will open a range of possibilities that they may never have thought of.

Geoff is a passionate public school teacher who enjoys coding for work and pleasure. He currently works as the Head of Middle Years, STEM and Data leading teacher and he spends the rest of his energy as the father of three girls.

I am a senior research fellow at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research and Maridulu Budyari Gumal (SPHERE) fellow for unwarranted variation in clinical cancer care. I have a background in clinical research both in industry and acadaemia and develop full-stack python solutions to support oncology research.

Ghazaleh is a computational health researcher with expertise in machine learning, graph modelling, and clinical data analysis. She completed a PhD in dynamic graph representation learning and held a visiting fellowship at the Computational Health Informatics Lab at the University of Oxford. Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at UNSW and the Ingham Institute, she works with the SPHERE Cancer Group to study variation in cancer care using OMOP-harmonised data, federated analytics, and privacy-preserving tools.

I am currently an A grade high school student with a passion for all things IT. Some of my achievements include attending the National Computing Science School in January 2024, Completing my Bronze Duke of Edinburgh, and being awarded my Australian Scout Award. I am currently working on my Silver Duke of Edinburgh, my Queen scout award, and my certificate 4 in project management.

Isabelle De Backer is a software engineer and technologist with a background in complex systems and a passion for new technologies and AI. She enjoys hands-on experimentation, building practical solutions across cloud platforms and data-driven applications. Isabelle is a Gen AI Builders Club Fellow and is always exploring the next innovation to experiment with.

Ishrat Zaman is a scientist working in the field of medical research as a bioimage analyst. She is passionate about the intersection of neuroscience, image analysis, and open-source software as well as developing analysis pipelines that can address complex scientific and biological questions. With a background in both wet lab-based biology and computational science, Ishrat is passionate about bridging domains, making complex analysis pipelines more accessible, and looking at as many pretty microscopy images as possible.

2nd year Software Engineering student. Long-time Pythonista and tech lover. Mild Caffeine addict.

As CTO of Kumo Study – a study and productivity management tool for people with ADHD – and with plenty of varied consulting under my belt, I have a focus on how tech can help other fields progress. I firmly believe that every topic in the world has something interesting about it, and love to try and discover what that is. I love to learn what the problems are and how I can actually make an impact, ideally with as simple a program as possible.

I’ve been using Python for years, working in both the professional and education sectors, and have focused on bringing the power of Python to everyone.

Jack is a consultant CTO For Hire, specialising in all things web and APIs. He consults to small and growing software companies on patterns and practices for scaling teams and technology. He’s spent the past decade growing technical communities as a speaker, organiser, facilitator and coach.

Jack has worn several hats at PyCon AU over the years, and one of those in 2025 is co-lead of the Data & AI Specialist Track. You might know him as "the hair".

Jenya’s journey into Python started in an unexpected place — studying African cultures and languages — and eventually led her to a Master’s in Machine Learning & Data Science. Today, she works on flight delay prediction at a company building tech for the aviation industry ✈️.

A digital nomad currently based in the pine forests of the Vietnamese highlands, she finds joy in birdwatching, doing yoga, and chasing the perfect cup of coffee ☕.

Kathy Reid works at the intersection of open source, emerging technologies and technical communities.

Over the last 20 years, she has held several technical leadership positions, including roles as Digital Platforms and Operations Manager at Deakin University, managing platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, Squiz Matrix and Atlassian Confluence, technical lead on projects involving digital signage and videoconferencing, and has worked as a web and application developer.

More recently, she has run her own technical consulting micro-business, and been engaged on a variety of projects involving data visualisation, certification applications and emerging technologies workshops.

She was previously Director of Developer Relations at Mycroft.AI, an open source voice assistant startup, and President of Linux Australia, Inc, a not for profit organisation which advocates for the use of open source technologies and runs technical events such as Linux Conference Australia. She brought GovHack – the open data hackathon – to Geelong in 2015 and 2016 and in 2011 ran Geelong’s first unconference – BarCampGeelong. Most recently, she worked as a voice open source specialist for Mozilla.

Kathy holds Arts and Science undergraduate degrees from Deakin University and an MBA (Computing) from Charles Sturt University, a Master in Applied Cybernetics (MAppCyber) from Australian National University, as well as several ITIL qualifications.

In 2019, she was one of 16 people from across the world chosen to undertake a Masters Program in a brand new branch of engineering at the Australian National University's 3A Institute, where she is now a PhD candidate researching voice data and ways to prevent and respond to bias in machine learning systems that use voice and speech, like speech recognition.

Kathy currently works with the Common Voice team at Mozilla Foundation as an engineer.

Larene is the engineering lead for Accessibility at Canva—whose mission is to empower everyone to design. Larene has been a software engineer and accessibility specialist for over 10 years, but her digital accessibility journey unknowingly began when she was much younger, when her Dad started to lose his vision and hearing.

Lilly Ryan is a recovering historian and current information security specialist based in Melbourne. Over the last decade she has worked as a Python developer, Linux wrangler, and penetration tester specialising in web application and cloud security.

Lilly is a fierce advocate for consumer privacy rights, a human-centred web, and making tech knowledge accessible to all.

After changing gears from corporate technology to tech education 1 year ago, I have been inspired and delighted watching my students grow. I work for the Canada Bay Council libraries, predominantly running The Lab, but also assisting in the makerspace and other tech education activities.
My 7 years as a front-end engineer at Nine and then Atlassian provided me with a solid foundation of technical expertise, that I still use today in my work as a developer for Kumo Study, a startup that creates study tools for people with ADHD. This goes hand-in-hand with my work with neurodivergent teenagers.
I love teaching technology, and am excited to further improve my skills and the programs I teach so that every student feels empowered to learn and use it.
Python was the first programming language I learnt, and so I always use it as the first step when teaching programming to my students.

Dr Melanie Hampel is a Senior Scientific Software Engineer at the Australian Synchrotron. She completed her PhD in nuclear astrophysics at Monash University in 2021. For the past 4 years she has been part of the Scientific Computing team at the Australian Synchrotron specialising in the development of analysis software for X-ray absorption spectroscopy with python.

Hello I'm a software engineer who loves building products that help people. I'm really excited by using AI and Python to lower the barriers to entry to coding for fun and profit.

I currently work at an AI customer support startup called Lorikeet based in Surry Hills and focus on improving conversation quality. Previously, I worked at Canva, also based in Surry Hills, and focused on improving search quality. And prior to that, I studied Computer Science at UNSW.

Microsoft Developer Engagement Lead Asia | Tedx Speaker | Dev Community Advocate | MCT | New Breakpoint Host | She Codes Mentor | User Group Host | Hackathon Judge | Open Sourcerer

I live at the heart of the coding community and help drive awareness and engagement as part of the developer relations community. I present at around 50 Conferences and Events around the world each year on AI, Azure, GitHub, Open Source, GameDev and LinkedIn. I judge hackathons and encourage the next generation into technology careers. In 2023 I became the host of the Microsoft ANZ web show - New Breakpoint, which is a show for developers by developers. I run the Microsoft Student Accelerator Program for ANZ encouraging emerging developers to build on Azure.

Mimoune "Mim" Djouallah, a former Construction Planner, has been a member of the Microsoft Fabric CAT team since December 2023. Holding a BSc in Civil Engineering, he's been deeply involved with the Power BI stack since 2016. An early adopter of Fabric, Mim actively blogs about Python notebooks, GIS, and various data engines that integrate with Onelake.

I am a 3rd year PhD candidate at Deakin University, specialising Artificial Intelligence (AI) for time series data analysis from heterogeneous IoT sensors. My research focuses on developing novel AI methods to classify time series measurements and recover the lost identity (metadata) of IoT sensors. I am passionate about building robust, intelligent systems that make sense of complex sensor data in real-world environments. I have been working with Python for over six years and regularly apply it to machine learning, data processing, and scientific research tasks.

I am Neha, a passionate PhD researcher currently pursuing my doctorate in Precision Medicine in Oncology and Complex Disorders at the University of Newcastle. As an international student from India, I am deeply invested in exploring the intersection of machine learning, oncology, and complex disorders to advance personalized healthcare solutions.

With over 8 years of experience in the IT sector, I have worked with esteemed companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and HCL Technologies, where I honed my skills in IT infrastructure, data analytics, and machine learning. My professional journey has provided me with a solid foundation in leveraging technology to solve real-world challenges.

In addition to my research, I am proud to have received fellowships from the Indian government as a Women Scientist and CMIE Fellow, recognizing my contributions to both technology and scientific research. Outside of academia, I work part-time with organizations like Junior Engineers and Code Camp, where I teach coding to students in schools across Australia, inspiring the next generation of tech leaders.

I am deeply committed to empowering women in technology and STEM education, particularly in the areas of machine learning and data science, and I actively strive to make a difference through mentorship and community outreach. My work in precision medicine aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and clinical application, and I am excited to contribute to advancements in oncology and complex disorder research.

Nic is a Senior Performance Engineer in Snowflake's Applied Performance Group, working with product engineering teams to identify and implement performance improvements to real-world customer use cases. He specialises in Snowpark, which brings Python and other non-SQL languages to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

Prior to his work with Snowflake's engineering team, he has over 10 years of experience in data engineering and analytics, primarily using Python and SQL.

Nic was the Sponsorships Lead for PyCon AU '23 and '24, and this year is co-lead of the Data & AI Specialist Track. You might know him as "the jacket".

Nick has attended, presented and volunteered at multiple PyConsAU, as well as LinuxConfAU, BuzzConf, OSDC and various meetups. His consulting career has taken him to many industries and open source projects, and recently he's been developing tools for use in bioinformatics, supporting research into cancer and genetic diseases.

https://nick.zoic.org/

Nicky describes herself as a recovering academic with a background in Computational Linguistics, and a recovering startup edtech founder. She co-founded Tech Inclusion, a technology education not-for-profit, and Grok Learning: a startup teaching hundreds of thousands of students to solve problems with code, before joining Big Tech where she currently works as a Product Manager in open source security.
Named one of Australia's inaugural “Superstars of STEM” and an AFR 'Women of Influence', Nicky is passionate about teaching the next generation to become the creators of tomorrow, while building a healthy, diverse community for them to thrive in.

Nitish Agarwal is a Senior Engineering Manager at GoDaddy, where he scaled India's largest engineering hub from 25 to 120+ engineers and deployed LLM-powered systems serving millions of users. Previously, he led product development at Balena (IoT marketplace), optimized flight search for 80M+ monthly users at Skyscanner, and built platform infrastructure at Expedia Group.
With an MBA from City University London and M.Eng from University of Waterloo, Nitish holds AWS Machine Learning Specialty and Solutions Architect Professional certifications. His experience spans national-scale system architecture, AI/ML implementation, and the intersection of technology policy with large-scale infrastructure deployment.

Patrick Sunter works as a scientific software engineer at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
His career has been at the intersection of software development and scientific R&D for over two decades, in diverse fields including earth science, transportation analysis and now hydrology and meteorology.
Now living in regional Victoria outside Ballarat, his hobbies include playing real/royal tennis, the world's oldest racquet sport.

Peter is the Conference Director of PyCon AU. He has been a software professional for 20 years and in that time has written software that allowed people with vision impairments to vote secretly, ensured a steady supply of croissants, and used lasers to send people places with chainsaws, among many other projects. His professional experience is mostly with Java and Go and he uses Python for personal projects.

Rachel divides her time being a ML engineer, crocheting caterpillars and dealing

Ramon is a research engineer and educator working at the intersection of AI and robotics at Menlo Labs. Currently, he is helping build the brain of a robot, a C++ tool to help bring different AI models into robots. Before that, he worked as a product developer and researcher, creating custom data tools, running workshops and developing training programs for clients in various industries. He has participated in several conferences and meetup events including PyCon, SciPy, PyData, MLOps World, and ODSC. In his free time, you will most likely find him traveling to a new place, mountain biking, or both.

Renee Noble spends her time bringing together tech, teaching, and community in as many ways as possible.

As a Cloud Developer Advocate on the Python Advocacy team at Microsoft, she spends her time teaching the community through global events, creating Python learning resources, and local workshops for students and professionals. Renee is also the CEO and Co-Founder or Tech Inclusion, best known for Girls’ Programming Network workshops that run around Australia. On top of this, Renee started her own Business, ConnectEd Code, bringing tech education opportunities to schools

Well known for her work in tech education and the advancement of women, Renee was most recently awarded as Champion of Change 2025 by Women Leading Tech.

I am a second-year PhD candidate at RMIT University, specialising in Artificial Intelligence for optimising energy efficiency and operational costs in centralised chilled water plants. Passionate about using technology to drive positive change, I am dedicated to solving real-world challenges through Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and advanced time series forecasting. My research, part of the RACE for 2030 Research Programme, focuses on building predictive models that enhance cooling load forecasting and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for sustainable energy solutions.

With recent experience in AI-driven cybersecurity, Natural Language Processing, and predictive modelling, I am committed to expanding my technical expertise and translating research into actionable insights for industry. I thrive on collaboration with industry experts and the broader tech community, sharing ideas, learning, and exploring AI’s transformative potential in energy, sustainability, and beyond.

Dr Russell Keith-Magee is the founder of the BeeWare project, a project developing GUI tools and libraries to support the development of Python software on desktop and mobile platforms. He joined the Django core team in 2006, and was the President of the Django Software Foundation for 5 years. He joined the CPython core team in 2024. He is a frequent speaker at Python and Django conferences around the globe, sharing his experience as a FLOSS developer, community maintainer, and (unsuccessful) startup founder. In his day job, he is a Principal Engineer at Anaconda, working on BeeWare in the OSS team.

My background is in applied mathematics and data science. I have a PhD and 15 years industry experience. Currently working as a data scientist at a fintech startup where my interest is in building maintainable and robust models for deployment.

Hi! I'm Sam, a student at UTS doing IT. I've been writing Python about five years fewer than I've been writing English, but it took most of that time to figure out how classes work. I spend most of my free time bouldering, at scouts, tinkering with elderly laptops, and coding python. This is my fourth time speaking at PyconAU, thanks to the student showcase.

Sarah has been programming since before most PyCon AU-ers were born (and since before many universities even owned a computer!). Having developed for macOS and the web for many years she has built everything from fermentation monitoring devices to furniture visualisers, but over the decades has never lost the thrill of being able to make a computer do what she wants.

While she might not consider herself a teacher, she has literally written the book on macOS development for macOS newbies (well, four books actually).
Sarah's passion is trying to get more people writing apps for the Mac itself, so her latest book "Escape from Tutorial Hell" helps people get over that next hurdle from beginner-coder to developer-in-your-own-right.

Sarah just can't get enough of computers, so in her spare time you'll either find her playing World of Warcraft or putting Python to work to solve Advent of Code problems.

Simon is a Senior SRE at Stronghold Pay with a background in software development with Python. Previously Simon was a contributor to OpenStack, an open source cloud platform written in Python which sparked his joy for Cloud and DevOps. Coming from a software development background Simon approached his cloud Journey like learning python - through writing code to build and automate cloud infrastructure.

Suzannah first started with Python to get a "head start" on learning how to program before a particularly notorious university course in the C programming language.

Since then, they have been dabbling with Python on and off in various domains from data analysis to machine learning to software development.

Nowadays, Suzannah primarily uses Python in their role of senior software engineer at Kraken Technologies.

Tarun Jain is a Super Agent at AI Planet and is recognized as a Google Developer Expert in AI. He enjoys contributing to open-source projects and maintains two repositories: OpenAGI, for building AI Agents, and BeyondLLM, for quick experimenting, evaluating, and observing RAG pipelines. Tarun also contributed to Google Summer of Code 2024 at Red Hen Lab and Google Summer of Code 2023 at caMicroscope. He is a content creator with over 3500+ subscribers for his channel AI with Tarun.

Previous Experience:
- Speaker at PyCon Hong Kong 2024
- Speaker at PyCon Malaysia 2024
- Speaker at PyCon APAC - Indonesia 2024
- Speaker at PyCon Singapore - 2025

Tennessee Leeuwenburg is a data scientist and software developer, at the Bureau of Meteorology, with over 20 years of experience. He has an interest in open source software, machine learning, and forecast verification. His current research work includes the development of scientific machine learning models for weather and environmental prediction. For an overview of his recent publications, please visit https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2024-1967 . He also maintains two open source software packages (https://github.com/nci/scores and https://github.com/ACCESS-Community-Hub/PyEarthTools).

I am a Staff Software Engineer and SRE with 10 years working in the industry. I have a particular interest in the socio-technical system of software development and how we can use our tools to help us rather than as challenges that must be overcome.

I work on deps.dev!

Tisham is a Senior Engineer at CSIRO Space and Astronomy division. Previously he held similar roles in various government agencies, private sector companies and startups. He has been pushing pixels since 2004 when he got started using medical imaging devices in Singapore. Since then he has had the priviledge of working with various space agencies such as NASA, DLR, JAXA, CNES etc. and lived through the explosion of publicly available satellite imagery.

Vivek is Lead Data Scientist and a founding team member at Multitudes, where he drives & executes the company's Data and AI strategy. He is passionate about building data products that create positive change. As co-founder and Executive Director of The Good Data Institute (GDI), he's led an Australian NGO that helps charities build data capabilities, supporting over 65 organisations on more than 80 projects globally. In his spare time, Vivek loves to jam on data science, ML and ethics. He's recently spoken at Tech 4 Social Justice, OPTIMA-CON, and LAST Conf, and he also holds a PhD in Optimisation via Quantum Computing.

Hi, I'm Vladimir! I am an IT teacher and award winning open source advocate sharing my knowledge with the next generation of software engineers.

I contribute to various open source projects and organise local meetups and conferences in Brisbane, Australia.

Obsessed with the web and over engineering simple problems, I've worked for 5+ years on various complicated frontend engineering problems and have lived to tell the tale, including a multi year project to launch dynamic colors across the chromeOS operating system.

Currently a software engineer at Qwilr, previously a software engineer at Google, before that a computer science student, tutor & lecturer at UNSW and before that a high school student who didn't appreciate the lack of lower back pain.