PyLadiesCon 2025

Yashasvi Misra

Yashasvi Misra is a software engineer at Pure Storage, mentor, and advocate for ethical tech practices. She builds scalable data pipelines, with a focus on modernizing legacy systems and embedding transparency into data workflows. Outside of engineering, Yashasvi serves as Chair of the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Working Group and actively mentors women in tech through PyLadies India and Women Techmakers. She’s passionate about creating inclusive communities, ethical engineering, and empowering others to lead with empathy in their code.


Beitrag

06.12
14:40
20min
Feminist Pipelines: Engineering Accountability into Your Data Stack
Yashasvi Misra

Can data engineering be feminist? Absolutely. As data engineers and Python developers, the decisions we make about what data to collect, how we transform it, and who gets access carry ethical weight. This talk explores how we can apply feminist principles like transparency, consent, and equity to build more ethical data pipelines. Through real-world examples of harm caused by opaque and biased data systems, we’ll examine how even routine ETL work can reinforce injustice. We’ll then outline practical approaches for designing pipelines that center care and accountability covering techniques like schema minimization, anonymization in Python, and documenting data provenance. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of how to challenge extractive data practices and use their technical skills to push back against surveillance capitalism and systemic bias.

Main Stream