Introducing our speakers, the Voices behind the talks ✨

I have won 3 times the best project award in Systems Engineering at EAFIT. I have given talks at Medellín JS, Python Medellín twice, Medellín AI, PyCon Colombia, Python Moscow, and BarNLP. I am half Colombian, I also have German and Russian heritage, and I speak Russian and German.

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.

Creció aprendiendo inglés con los menús de instalación del software y los tutoriales de YouTube antes de que existieran en español. Esa curiosidad temprana por la tecnología lo llevó de Ingeniería Industrial y análisis financiero en la Javeriana a construir pipelines de datos para empresas en tres países. Juan Manuel es Senior Data Engineer con experiencia en GCP, Python y automatización, y ha trabajado desde plataformas B2B de comercio con Asia hasta proyectos de BI en Cisco. En Attento se encargó de lo que más le gusta: que los datos fluyan limpio, que la infraestructura no se note, y que el sistema recuerde lo que hiciste ayer.

Ingeniera Industrial convertida en Data Scientist por amor a los números y a la tecnología. Juliana pasó de modelar probabilidades en la Javeriana a modelos de detección de fraude en MercadoLibre y MercadoPago, y hoy construye soluciones de IA en Cuesta Partners, una consultoría de Tech y AI. Attento es su experimento más reciente: demostrar que Python puede conectar una voz humana con diez APIs corporativas sin perder la cabeza en el camino. Fuera del teclado, se acaba de graduar como Chef, donde aplica la misma rigurosidad técnica que en su vida laboral.

I'm a software engineer who loves learning new stuff and working on exciting projects.

I'm a software engineer and builder with more than 11 years of experience creating products for startups across healthcare, fintech, real estate, and AI. I specialize in Python, TypeScript, backend architecture, and modern AI-driven development workflows. I enjoy turning complex ideas into real products that people can actually use. Beyond coding, I care deeply about engineering quality, developer experience, clean systems, and continuous learning. I'm also passionate about community and education. I've spoken at conferences like PyTexas 2026 and organize developer events and workshops as a Cursor Ambassador in Ecuador.