Pycon Sweden 2024

Junior Python Developer at Schneider Electric. Student of Computer Science and Econometrics at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. In addition to coding, I enjoy sailing and have recently started learning to play the guitar.

Aleksey Veresov is a software engineer at Hopsworks, leading work on using LLMs to help improve developer productivity in building and operating AI systems. Aleksey is finishing his M.Sc. in Computer Science at KTH in Stockholm. His research interests include programming languages and distributed systems, and he has presented his work at prestigious venues such as ECOOP.

Jim Dowling is CEO of Hopsworks - the AI Lakehouse. He is writing a book on building AI Systems for O'Reilly. He organizes the annual feature store summit and co-organizes PyData Stockholm.

I am a self-taught backend developer with interest for electronics Currently, I work at Helicon, where we develop software solutions for Swedish energy companies.

My journey into programming began with a desire to pursue a PhD and research how seemingly unsustainable technologies, like blockchain, could be applied to sustainability efforts. As I dived into the technical details of blockchain, I found myself stumbled by lots of coding examples and thus I decided to start learning programming. It took me a while but this sparked my interest in programming. From there, I shifted my focus to becoming a developer instead, and I’ve never looked back since!

In addition to my work at Helicon, I am an active member of PyLadies Stockholm, a community of women who code in Python, where I am aimed to continue sharing my knowledge and learn from others.

I am a Backend Engineer specializing in Software Engineering, currently working at Helicon Technologies. I previously co-organized PyLadies São Paulo and Django Girls São Paulo, and I now co-organize PyLadies Stockholm where I focus on empowering women in tech and fostering the growth of the Python community, driven by my passion for learning and sharing knowledge.

Christian Heitzmann is a Java-, Python- and Spring-certified software developer with a CAS in Machine Learning and owner of SimplexaCode in Lucerne, Switzerland. He has been developing software for over 20 years and has been teaching classes and courses for over 12 years in the areas of Java and Python programming, mathematics, and algorithms. As a technical writer, he documents software architectures for companies and regularly writes articles for IT journals.

Christophe is a Senior Software Engineer at DataStax working on AI frameworks. Through his love for open source, he is also a LangChain Community Champion, an Apache Pulsar committer and a core team member of JHipster and OpenAPI-generator projects.

Cristián is a PSF fellow and recently elected to the PSF Board of directors.
He is currently working at The Qt Company as Sr. R&D Manager, in charge of the Qt Core (Berlin) and Qt for Python teams, from which he has been part of the development team for more than 6 years.
In his spare time, he is a serial conference and community organizer in many countries, and participates in different initiatives like the translation of the Python documentation into Spanish, PyPI moderation, and others related to Open Source.

Dominik is a Senior Data Scientist at Otto Group data.works in Hamburg. He has previously worked at E.ON and IONOS and has a background in particle physics (KIT/CERN).

Fabien Vauchelles is an Anti-Ban Expert. With over a decade of experience in Web Scraping, Fabien's passion for code and technology helps him to bypass protections. He is the creator of Scrapoxy, a mature free and open-source proxy waterfall tailored for the Web Scraping industry.

He had the opportunity of sharing his insights at many events including Devoxx conferences, PyCon, DefCamp, Voxxed Days, API Days, PyData and others.

Fredrik is a software developing freelancer, and in 20ish years has worked in “all of the industries” in almost every role from tech lead to tester. In his career he has worked with everything from tiny startups to huge enterprise companies and he’s currently the Django lead at Codepath.

Refusing to overly specialize or ever (again) accepting a management role, he combines a long and broad experience in software development with both technical and organizational skills. Recent work has focused on building teams, securing data and processes, and making sure that things go faster and/or cheaper. Once upon a time, he instigated a conference. He is lazy by nature, which is why he automates things obsessively.

I am a software engineer at Canonical, currently working to improve the experience of running complex business operations, using both Kubernetes and traditional machine clouds.

Jesper Larsson is a freelance IT security researcher and penetration tester focused on cloud and infrastructure security. Jesper is a member of the well-renowned penetration testing firm Cure53, where he works for multinational clients spanning several fields, helping companies and foundations implement secure infrastructures worldwide. In addition, Jesper has also made an appearance in the movie industry, with his participation as one of the hackers in the SVT production "_Hackad". Furthermore, He is one of the co-founders and organizers of SecurityFest, a technical IT-Security conference on the Swedish west coast, and Säkerhetspodcasten, Sweden's first IT-Security-focused podcast.

Hi! My name is Joakim, a software developer working at 46elks.

When I'm not developing web applications, Python-tools or working in our technical support, I enjoy playing, composing and arranging music (or, at least trying to!). A dream of mine is to make video games and work as a video game music composer.

💻 Fullstack Developer in Schneider Electric,
🌟✨🏆 leader,
🐍 python programming lover,
🎮 gamer,
🕺 king of disco,
⚽️🏀🏈🥊 love sport in every form,
🇵🇱 from Poland

Kristoffer Nordström is a test developer who has worked with telecommunications systems, distributed compilers, cloud technology, smartphone OS development, embedded systems, and much more.

As a testing devotee and a member of the test community, with his own company Kristoffer consults and teaches the course Python for Testers because he believes in tools-assisted sapient testing. Over the years he has seen the immense value of testers learning how to distill large amounts of information into the so-called “big picture,” and he advocates for learning the soft skills necessary to collaborate with the people making up the organization.

Apart from being an avid software tester, Kristoffer is also a sci-fi reader, lamp maker, and craftsman.

Hi! I'm Larry, the official mascot of Locust Technologies. Visit our workshop and you might end up taking me home with you!

Maintainer of Locust: https://github.com/locustio/locust

CTO and founder of Locust Technologies: https://locust.cloud

Magdalena Stenius is a backend engineer specialized in working with machine learning use cases. She has a long track record of building both tooling for ML engineering as well as working with large scale recommender models, and most of her career has been spent in the python ecosystem. She is currently a backend engineer as well as on-call engineer at Wolt.

Marc-Andre is the CEO and founder of eGenix.com, a Python-focused boutique project and consulting company based in Germany, specializing in the data, finance and database space. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Düsseldorf.

His work with and for Python started in 1994. He is a Python Core Developer, designed and implemented the Unicode support in Python, the editor of the Python DB-API and author of several open source libraries and tools (e.g. the mx Extensions mxDateTime and mxODBC).

Marc-Andre is a EuroPython Society (EPS) Fellow, a Python Software Foundation (PSF) founding Fellow and co-founded a local Python meeting in Düsseldorf (PyDDF). He served on the board of the PSF and EPS for many years and loves to contribute to the growth of Python wherever he can.

More information is available on https://malemburg.com/

Has been tinkering with code in some form for the past 20 years, currently Tech Lead at Kognity. Also a popular science author, with the latest book En Summa av Ögonblick due for release soon. Passionate about education, mathematics, chess, and opinionated style checkers.

Melina is a visionary and pragmatic leader and doer with nearly two decades of experience in delivering cutting-edge tech solutions. As the CEO of NordAxon, she has led AI transformations and implementations of value creating solutions, guided companies through AI strategy, and built top-performing AI-specialized teams. Degrees in both computer science and business have helped her forging strategic partnerships and accelerating AI adoption across industries. From driving AI and data initiatives at Alfa Laval, Öresundsbron, Danske Bank to lecturing in AI for Region Skåne, AI Sweden, Danske Bank and Novo Nordisk her influence in the field of AI spans public and private sectors.

Together with the most amazing, highly skilled, and best performing NordAxon team she makes sure that NordAxon is the leading provider of locally produced, commercially viable, and socially beneficial AI services and AI powered solutions. Together, they strive to constantly stay at the forefront of AI technology and trends, thereby contributing to a smarter and more sustainable future for our society.

Privately, Melina proudly devotes most of her spare time to my 3-year-old son Kevin, which she would describe as the protagonist of her life.

Greetings and salutations! I'm Nikole, 21 years old and VR enthusiast who has built her own Full Body Tracking solution for VR, and is planning to build her own Eye/Face Tracking as well!

I work professionally with Python at 46elks, where I work as devops/server technician/general nerd

If you ask me about VR, I very well might talk your ears off, you've been warned! Other hobbies include working on classic cars, photography (sometimes), and custom keyboards, if you see me, come say hi, I won't bite! c;

// MsNikole, server room gremlin at 46elks

I have over 15 years of experience in Python development, with a focus on network management and the Netlink protocol.

Petter is an consultant in Stockholm, who has a wide range of experience in programming, and many different languages. He strives to build high quality systems, and together with his co-workers become better every day at what they do - creating systems to help people.

Phil Ewels is Product Manager for Open Source at Seqera. He holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge, UK and has a career that has spanned many disciplines from scientific lab work and computational bioinformatics research in the life sciences, through to software development and community engagement. He is passionate about open-source software and has a soft spot for tools with a focus on user-friendliness. He is author of MultiQC, co-founder of the nf-core Nextflow bioinformatics community and creator of many pet projects.

Ratuja is a senior backend engineer at Tech Lead at Lyst - a shopping app which helps customers have a better experience online shopping.

She's currently working in Payments and Marketing Engineering and enjoys playing with new technologies, refactoring code to make it prettier and more satisfying, and all around just solving every day life problems with Python. She's also a member of Lyst's Tech Culture Group and Women in Engineering Committee, helping with initiatives like company wide hack-days and fostering a community of women in tech at Lyst.

I am a Software developer II at Kinaxis. An AI Canadian supply chain company. Mostly worked on numerous tools improve the infrastructure of the software systems using Artificial intelligence and automation approaches. Currently resides in Canada and holds a Masters degree in Computer Engineering with specialization in Data Science from Carleton University. I am residing in one of the most beautiful capitals of the world, Ottawa, Canada

Saaya is the CEO and cofounder of Emigreat, a reg-tech startup streamlining global mobility and reducing uncertainty and workload for companies. Prior to moving to Sweden in 2019, she built and exited one of the most prestigious tourism operators in Honduras.
Winner of Di Digital's Female Founder of the Year and Nordic Female Founder of the Year in 2023, she advocates for changes to the Swedish immigration system and creates content to educate immigrants on their visa options and rights.
When not discussing immigration politics and policies, she can be caught engaging in discussions on minority representation, female entrepreneurship, sustainable living, and marine conservation.

Product and Startup enthusiast with a passion for innovation and growth

Machine learning Engineer at Identv.
Model Inference Architecture Design, Large scale Recommendation system.

Sophie is a Senior Backend Engineer at Lyst, a leading shopping platform that elevates the online shopping experience for customers globally.

As a key member of the Product Data team, she plays a crucial role in ensuring that Lyst’s customers and internal teams have access to high-quality, accurate inventory data and that Lyst delivers a seamless and valuable integration experience for its partners. She is passionate about collaboration and problem-solving and thrives when diving into new challenges alongside fellow engineers.

In addition to her technical role, Sophie is an active member of Lyst’s Women in Engineering committee. She has spearheaded initiatives such as a work experience programme in partnership with Next Tech Girls and an internal, female-focused mentorship programme aimed at fostering growth and support for women in tech.

Tobias Modig is a developer, coach, speaker and teacher who values clean code and good habits just as much as a positive work atmosphere. He is passionate about competence sharing and will gladly reveal his tips and tricks as well as confiding his own mistakes to prevent others from repeating them. Tobias has been working as a developer and architect since the late 90s and is currently a Software Development Consultant at Citerus in Stockholm.

Ulrik solves odd problems by using broad knowledge on software, electronics and image processing via his own consulting company called OddTech. He has worked for clients such as IKEA, Hasselblad and Öresundsbron. He is currently helping Luxbright to automate their X-ray tube factory and research labs.
Python is his favourite programming language – after to many years with Java, C and PHP.
Ulrik used to write for DatorMagazin and he also has a background as professional photographer and educator in photography.