2024-12-06 –, Main Stream
Language: English
Experiences and stories from PyLadies in Open Source.
Moderated by Abigail Dogbe.
Melissa is an applied mathematician and former university professor who fell in love with open source communities. She has been involved with the Python and PyData communities for some time, with a focus on outreach, education and DEI. She works at Quansight as a Senior Developer Experience Engineer, is a maintainer for NumPy, SciPy and napari, and believes in the power of contributions beyond code.
Mesrenyame is an Open Source Community Builder, Programs Manager, Researcher and STEM Education advocate from Ghana who loves the power that Open Source can put in people’s hands. She wants to help create more awareness, through community building, advocacy and research.
Jessica Tegner is an open-source software developer and computer science student from Denmark who has been a part of the open source world for over 13 years. She is a maintainer of pypandoc, a thin wrapper for the universal document converter pandoc.
Being fully blind has not stopped her from working as a software engineer intern at Uber, being a member of the first GitHub Accelerator program or having the opportunity of being a world-conference public speaker.
Yaa supports open data at Global Fishing Watch, collaborating with API users such as researchers and developers to advance ocean sustainability. As a leader of PyLadies Ghana, she fosters an inclusive community of women excelling in Python programming and using technology to address global challenges. With a foundation in software engineering and advanced studies in Cybersecurity, Yaa is committed to nurturing innovation and diversity within the tech ecosystem. Her work embodies a vision of technology as a catalyst for equity, sustainability, and transformative change.
Natalia is a Django Fellow with more than 15 years of experience in Python and Django. She graduated as a Computer Scientist in the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, in 2007. Natalia began her career at a local Python startup and later joined Canonical, where she worked for over a decade as a senior engineer and then as a tech lead and architect of various projects.
As an active contributor to the Django and Python communities, Natalia has spoken at various conferences on software development best practices and testing. She is also dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in tech and is passionate about open source, emphasizing the importance of high-quality code, documentation, and testing.