North Bay Python 2025

Adrianna Tan is a product manager interested in public interest technology. She works at Monterey Bay Aquarium, Humane Intelligence, and previously started several small nonprofits that work to teach programming to children.

Amethyst is a senior engineer at Meta, working on foundational Python infrastructure and tooling to support thousands of engineers, data scientists, and ML researchers. She is also the maintainer of numerous open source libraries on PyPI, and an experienced speaker from Python conferences and meetups around the world.

Jeremy talks to people who talk to computers about talking to computers.

Maker, breaker, and professional eater of bread, Joe Kaufeld likes to try and leave the world a little better than he found it. A senior software engineer by day, Joe has worked in everything from fintech to education. Notable projects include TranscribersOfReddit (crowdsourced accessibility, powered by Python), FilamentColors.xyz (the world's largest 3D printing filament archive), or asbestos (a library for testing SnowflakeDB calls). Find him on the fediverse at fosstodon.org/@itsthejoker!

Joelle is a Network Engineer at Netflix, with an academic background in Computer Science and Gender Studies.

Kattni (she/her) is a creator, programmer, maker, writer, photographer, classically trained vocalist, air plant cultivator, and fledgling synth nerd. She is passionate about building and maintaining safe and inclusive communities, learning new things, creating approachable information, and sharing her knowledge. She is tolerated by a cat and three kittens who continue to let her live with them.

I’m a software engineer and Djangonaut who recently found my way into open source with the help of the wonderful Django community.

I am a 20 year career professional in software development, with a background in computer science, electrical engineering, and machine learning, from the days before deep learning. I worked on early iterations of recommender systems and quickly realized that content recommendation is a race to the bottom for the most salacious clickbait. From there I moved on to b2b SaaS products and have worked as a platform engineer in a number of organizations since then. In recent years, I have moved back into AI and now work on generative AI tools for code generation and analysis. On the side, I am building distributed AI systems for ethically moderating social media.

Margaret Fero is an interdisciplinary hacker with interests ranging from technical writing to board games to corporate risk analysis to the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. In their spare time, Margaret enjoys using their background in the performing arts, seeking out interesting snacks from around the world, and basking in the many useful services of local libraries.

I like cats, my family, coffee, and Python. I make software at O'Reilly Media. I make bad jokes everywhere; you've been warned.

Mike Van Winkle has been an infrastructure engineer for 15 years. He began his career as a web dev but quickly found he loved hosting websites as much as building them. He was the 3rd engineer hired at WP Engine and helped them scale from 100 servers to over 10,000 servers. For the past six years he has been working at Sonos and helping their cloud handle requests from over 30 million devices worldwide.

Oliver Rew is a software engineer at Bloomberg in New York City, where he works on data center technologies and infrastructure automation. Outside of work, he enjoys electronics, hardware design, and anything related to space (ask him about his CubeSat!).

Parul is a Senior Production Engineer at Meta, where she works within the Python Foundation team. Her focus is on Python's PyPI packages for internal Meta use-cases, to deliver an accelerated research-to-production AI development. She is also an early contributor to FairLearn, an open-source Python library to help assess and mitigate bias in AI systems.

Parul is also an advocate for bridging the gender gap in technology and actively mentors several aspiring technologists. Her goal is to use her expertise to inspire and support others to build a career in the field of computer science.

In her free time, Parul enjoys dancing, painting, and traveling.

Philip James (aka phildini) has been using Python since a friend used a projector at a summer camp to teach him code basics, changing the entire course of his life from "moody theater kid" to "moody (but smiling) Pythonista". Philip has used Python to help build the Internet at Eventbrite and Patreon, and now uses Python and Django every day as the Executive Director of CivicBand.

Simon is a generalist polyglot with a passion for all things Python, DevOps, InfoSec and Foss. As a Senior SRE with years of experience helping teams build and secure cloud platforms, Simon finds his calling striving for software delivery excellence - often in challenging regulatory landscapes - through the thoughtful application of Lean principles and DevOps practices. Simon is an active member of the New Zealand InfoSec community, Secretary of Python New Zealand and Treasurer of Kiwi PyCon - New Zealand's National Python conference.

Tilde (they/them) is a San Francisco based artist, activist, and engineer. By day they are a senior developer educator at LaunchDarkly. They can probably deadlift more than you. Ask them about how to paint an algorithm, the intersections between mutual aid and biology, or which coast has the best vegan croissants.

Trey Hunner helps individuals and teams level-up their Python skills through Python Morsels courses/exercises and his weekly Python tips newsletter.