Nic Crouch
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".
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The Data & AI specialist track is all about the technology, skills, and practices that engineers, data scientists, and researchers need when building effective and reliable solutions that involve data and leverage different flavours of machine learning and automation. We’re excited to hear talks that cover a wide range of topics relating to data science, data engineering, ML engineering, and modern artificial intelligence.
The Data & AI specialist track is all about the technology, skills, and practices that engineers, data scientists, and researchers need when building effective and reliable solutions that involve data and leverage different flavours of machine learning and automation. We’re excited to hear talks that cover a wide range of topics relating to data science, data engineering, ML engineering, and modern artificial intelligence.
Every software system can benefit from being "faster".
But what does “faster” mean, exactly? How do we get to “faster”? If everyone is trying to build performant systems, then why are so many of them so slow?
Let's talk about the fundamentals of performance engineering, and how to use them design and build systems that feel "faster" - even when that's not quite what you thought.