Introducing our speakers, the Voices behind the talks ✨

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.