PyCon LT 2022

Cheuk Ting Ho

Before working in Developer Relations, Cheuk has been a Data Scientist in various companies which demands high numerical and programmatical skills, especially in Python. To follow her passion for the tech community, now Cheuk is the Developer Relations Lead at TerminusDB - an open-source graph database. Cheuk maintains its Python client and engages with its user community daily.

Besides her work, Cheuk enjoys talking about Python on personal streaming platforms and podcasts. Cheuk has also been a speaker at Universities and various conferences. Besides speaking at conferences, Cheuk also organises events for developers. Conferences that Cheuk has organized include EuroPython (which she is a board member of), PyData Global and Pyjamas Conf. Believing in Tech Diversity and Inclusion, Cheuk constantly organizes workshops and mentored sprints for minority groups. In 2021, Cheuk has become a Python Software Foundation fellow.


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@cheukting_ho

Notable open source projects that you contribute to. Add URLs, one per line.

TerminusDB Python Client: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb-client-python


Session

05-26
11:30
30min
Trojan Source Code - Can we trust open-source anymore?
Cheuk Ting Ho

Recently, a paper titled Trojan Source is published to demonstrate how a visibly valid contribution can contain malicious code by exporting the Unicode control characters. Some of these have been tested on Python and it works. How can it happen? Shall the Python and open-source communities be concerned?

Python
Python Room