PyCon UK 2025

Shahar Polak

Shahar Polak is Head of Engineering at ImagenAI, where his team edits hundreds of millions of photos a year - without losing their minds. He was a founding engineer at BreezoMeter, later acquired by Google, and has nearly 20 years of building things that (mostly) don’t break. He also lectures at the Technion and Reichman about leadership, scaling teams, and surviving startup chaos.


Session

09-20
11:00
25min
FastAPI, Furious Tests: The Need for Speed
Shahar Polak

Learn how we made our FastAPI tests 10x faster by ditching Docker, going in-memory, and embracing simplicity (and sanity).

Space 2