Introducing our speakers, the Voices behind the talks ✨

Soy un desarrollador Full Stack apasionado por crear soluciones digitales elegantes y funcionales. Mi enfoque está en escribir código limpio, mantenible y escalable que no solo funcione, sino que también proporcione una excelente experiencia de usuario. Trabajo principalmente con tecnologías modernas que me permitieron construir aplicaciones robustas y de alto rendimiento para StartUps de Estados Unidos y Ecuador. Además del desarrollo, disfruto aprendiendo continuamente, compartiendo conocimiento en comunidades tecnológicas y contribuyendo a proyectos open source cuando es posible.

Machine Learning Engineer and Data Engineer with a background in Astronomy and Astrophysics and over 5 years of experience designing, building, and deploying scalable data pipelines, ML systems, and Big Data solutions on AWS and Databricks. I specialize in building end-to-end machine learning pipelines, RAG systems, and agentic AI workflows, as well as optimizing big data processes using Apache Spark, SQL/NoSQL data modeling, and cloud-native architectures.

I'm a Colombian software engineer with 11+ years of professional experience, and entrepreneur working in Python, TypeScript and open source development. I currently work as an AI Engineer at Backblaze. Previously, I worked at Datalayer building tools at the intersection of Jupyter, AI, and collaborative computing, at Quansight contributing to the scientific Python ecosystem, and at Anaconda as Technical Lead for Anaconda Navigator. My career spans from water resources engineering (MSc from IHE Delft and Erasmus Mundus) to becoming a core contributor to major open source projects including Spyder IDE, JupyterLab, and napari, conda-forge among others. I've created over 400+ conda-forge recipes and led internationalization efforts for JupyterLab and automating efforts in the Scientific Python Translations project. I also co-founded Trepa, a climbing gym in Bogotá, Colombia, and co-founded PyCon Colombia. I'm deeply committed to the Latin American Python and open source communities, and serve on the Python Software Foundation Grants Working Group.