Dom Weldon
Dom is a full stack cloud software engineer based in central London. He works as an independent contractor, currently in financial services, and was formerly a Principal at Decision Lab, a consultancy with expertise in simulation, optimisation, and machine learning. Dom’s primary expertise are in Python, AWS (and the Infrastructure as Code tool Terraform), Javascript, and graph and relational databases. Dom studied at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, and alongside his work in tech holds a voluntary statutory appointment monitoring conditions for prisoners inside a challenging inner London jail.
Session
What actually happens when you import a package? Let's find out, then explore recent packaging developments, including the new tool PDM, comparing it to pip and poetry. We'll also cover some (opinionated) best practices for handling metadata, and building secure, modern applications using third party libraries in python.