5th Annual Holiday Party for Python Devs in the Bay Area

Let's celebrate the Python community in style with lightning talks, a panel discussion on Best Practices in Scaling Python Code Base, live music, raffle, good food, beer...

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Lightning Talks

👉Amazing Interactive Visualizations with Python + Bokeh - Christopher Brousseau

👉Python in the Newsroom: How Python Tools Are Enabling Better Data Journalism - Ben Hancock

👉ML-based code completion tools for Python programmers - Skip Everling

👉Using Social Networks to address the Climate Emergency - Sumeet Sandhu

👉Several people are typing - Jenna Quindica

👉Cython for All with GitHub Actions - Grant Jenks

👉Parquet or PyTest - Santona Tuli

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Panel Discussion - Best Practices in Scaling Python Code Base

Panelists: Brett Slakin, Lisa Roach, Mahmoud Hashemi, Leigh Johnson, Glyph Lefkowitz

Bios: Brett Slatkin is a principal software engineer at Google, where he works on survey and experimentation infrastructure. He is the author of the book Effective Python. Find him online at https://onebigfluke.com and @haxor

Lisa Roach is a Production Engineer at Facebook and a CPython Core Developer. She is passionate about Python, and has spent time using Python on networking and security teams, and now focuses on improving the language itself and enabling other users of it.

Mahmoud Hashemi is a backend engineer and architect, open-source library maintainer, PSF Fellow, and Wikipedian, with ten years of experience building enterprise software. He authored O'Reilly's Enterprise Software with Python, cohosts the Pyninsula Python meetup group in the San Francisco Bay Area, and semi-regularly delivers talks on software architecture.

Leigh Johnson is a Staff Software Engineer at Slack, where she builds and operates petabyte-scale datastore and cache platforms. She learned a thing or two about scaling open source Python codebases and communities via her contributions to Ansible Core, AWX (Ansible Tower), and TensorFlow. Leigh is recognized as a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning for her work with computer vision and neural networks on small devices, like Raspberry Pi.

Glyph is the founder of the Twisted project, a blogger at glyph.twistedmatrix.com, a contributor to various Python infrastructure open source projects, and a software engineer at Pilot.com

Live Music

We are excited for the return of Noa Levy, a jazz-rock fusion vocalists with rave reviews from past Holiday Parties. She has performed for SF JAZZ and local jazz clubs such as Cafe Claude and Zingari Ristorante & Jazz Club.

Agenda

• 5:45pm Check-in / reception
• 6:10pm Live Band
• 6:50pm Opening Remarks
• 6:55pm Lightning Talks
• 7:40pm Break: Music, networking, more drinks/food
• 8:00pm Raffle/Thank yous to Community Leaders
• 8:10pm Panel Discussion + Q&A
• 9:00pm Closing
• 9:30pm Hard Stop

Ticketing Information

The Holiday Party is one of two fundraising events for SF Python to cover operating costs of producing over 20 tech meetups a year. If the ticket cost is a financial hardship for you, please write to the organizers.

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The Holiday Party is brought to you by

SF Python A volunteers run organization aiming to foster the Python community by producing fun and educational get-togethers for developers in SF Bay Area.

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