Speakers
Alexander Todorov
Project lead - Kiwi TCMS
Alex is a Senior QA engineer and Python developer with more than 13 years of experience. He's been responsible for …
TLK PyCon Talk
Extending your static analysis for fun and profit
Static analysis tools are usually the domain of developers. However they can be extended with custom plugins which serve to …
Alex Plugaru
CTO - Gorgias
Been doing python web apps since 2010. Currently CTOing at Gorgias. Interested in scaling user-centric apps, making machines understand human …
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Scaling Flask and Celery
Lessons learned from building a SaaS application (from 0 to 1000 businesses) for the past 3 years on how we …
Aly Sivji
Chicago Python Organizer
Aly Sivji is a Canadian expat living in Chicago. By day, he builds backend systems at Numerator. By night, he …
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If Statements are a Code Smell
Writing software is about making trade-offs between getting things done and doing them right. Time constraints often force us to …
Andrew Godwin
Principal Engineer - Eventbrite
Andrew is a Python developer most known for his work on Django - including South, Django Migrations, and Channels - …
KEY PyCon Keynote
Pioneering Real-Time
"Real-time" is a popular term on the modern Web - from AJAX to async, it's often used to talk about …
Daniela Crăciun
Software Engineer - Delivery Hero
I'm Daniela, I've been a Software Engineer for more than 3 years now, working mostly with Python and cloud services. …
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Automating for an easier life: apartment hunting
This projects proposes using scraping, data science and some additional handy tools to find an apartment in a competitive renting …
Emanuil Tolev
Community Engineer - Elastic
Emanuil is a Community Engineer with Elastic, the company behind the open source Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, APM, Kibana, Beats, and …
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Hiring a Personal Investigator for your app
It has been a busy several years in monitoring and observability. Logging solutions are widely deployed, from scp+grep to proper …
Ewa Szyszka
Student
Born and raised in Poland. Currently a Computer Science student at Minerva Schools at KGI and Electronics Engineering student at …
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Linguistics meet Python
We would learn a new alphabet, we will challenge Python code and explore how Python can get political. If you …
WRK PyCon Workshop
Introduction to Sign Language Recognition in OpenCV
The workshop would encompass a step by step walkthrough an implementation of the basic sign language alphabet recognition using OpenCV …
Ionel Cristian Mărieș
Buggy software developer
Ionel is a Python developer that maintains the pytest-cov and pytest-benchmark plugins, and a bunch of other tools. He has …
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No code is perfect
"We write code so good we don't need debugging" - ever heard this? I have, right before "we can't find …
Jacek Kołodziej
Python back end developer - Growbots
Python back end developer at Growbots. Aspires to be A Programmer - that'd be a lot to unpack to describe …
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Event-Sourced Story
After three years of utilizing event sourcing at our company, I want to introduce to you its basics and share …
Julia Duimovich
Software Developer - Konfio
Julia is a backend web developer. She's convinced multiple people to fall in love with Python in the last few …
The gap between industry & academics is wide and tough to bridge. Many people do not see technical papers as …
Lori Repanich Hill
Senior Software Engineer - NBCUniversal
Lori Repanich Hill is a Senior Software Engineer at NBCUniversal who writes iOS and tvOS apps for NBC News. She …
Research supports the benefits of pair programming including higher quality code and transfer of knowledge, yet the mention of pair …
Mariia Matskevichus
Data Scientist - Grid Dynamics
Mariia is a data scientist at Grid Dynamics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She is also a final year master at ITMO University …
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How to train a neural network to classify screws by photo
Imagine, thousands of bolt and screw positions in the catalog, bulky filters, unclear product descriptions… all this is a headache …
Marija Mitrović Dankulov
Associate Research Professor - Institute of Physics Belgrade
Marija Mitrović Dankulov is the Head of Innovation Center at the IPB and an Associate Research Professor at IPB.
…
KEY PyCon Keynote
Python and computational social science
The idea that social phenomena should also follow precise quantitative such as one existing in physics is more than two …
Martin Czygan
Software Developer | Leipzig University Library
Martin Czygan works as a software developer, consultant and author in Leipzig, Germany. He fell in love with Python over …
Jupyter grew out of the IPython project (2001) - a Python REPL on steroids. Since its inception in 2015, Jupyter …
Martin Taleski
Lead Developer, Founder - Eyetea Solutions
I have been working as a Software Engineer since 2008. I have started with remote freelancing on 2011, and have …
TLK PyCon Talk
How I learned to love the Django Admin
The Django Admin is still relevant and widely usable in 2019. In fact it is one of best solutions for …
Nejc Zupan
CTO - niteo.co
Geek since he was able to walk. Ditched academia for excitements of start-ups and entrepreneurship powered by Open Source.
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Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans
Pipenv is a tool that aims to bring the best of packaging worlds (bundler, composer, npm, cargo, yarn, etc.) to …
Nikola Živković
Team Lead - Vega IT Sourcing
My name is Nikola Živković and I am a software developer with over 10 years of experience in the industry. …
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Barrel of a GAN
You have probably seen those beautiful hi-resolution photos of people that don't exist. These images are made by a special …
Nikoleta Glynatsi
PhD Student - Cardiff University
Nikoleta Glynatsi is a PhD student in the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University. She is a fellow of the …
KEY PyCon Keynote
The Fallacy of Meritocracy
Meritocracy is a society governed by people selected according to merit. But despite all our best intentions, does meritocracy work? …
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Strawberry: a dataclasses inspired approach to GraphQL
Over the past few years GraphQL has gained much traction, especially in the JavaScript world. Python is getting on board …
Sara Jakša
Software Engineer - Cleanshelf
I am a cognitive science student, who used to program as a hobby. These days I realize that I can …
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Topic Modeling: All Mistakes I Did, so You Don't Have To
With huge amount of textual data available today (especially when all the transcripts are included), it would be a shame …
Srdjan Vranac
Owner/Founder/Team Lead - Code4Hire Kft.
Vranac has been in this industry for a long time. He had good fortune to work with a lot of …
For the last couple of years I have been building, maintaining and fighting a projects that make use of distributed …
Sviatoslav Sydorenko
Senior Software Engineer - Red Hat
Hi, I'm Sviat and I'm a Python hacker. Find me as @webknjaz on Twitter and GitHub. By day, I work …
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GitHub Bots: Rise of the Machines 🤖
Hello, fellow human 🧙!
You probably spend so much time doing recurring routines manually. What if I told you that …
Thomas Ballinger
Software Engineer - Dropbox
Thomas is a data engineer at Dropbox and contributes to IPython, Jupyter, and bpython.
He was previously a facilitator …
KEY PyCon Keynote
The Tree of Pythons
Alternate Python implementations with goals like running in the browser, compiling to a smaller binary, and running faster than CPython …
Tomislav Kozačinski
Product Designer - Meridian Collective
I am an experienced product designer, speaker, mentor and stand-up comedian with over 12 years of experience across digital and …
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No Bulls*it Freelancer
Should you be a freelancer?
Growing and managing two parallel careers. What is it actually like to work for …
Toni Simu
Senior Python developer / Community Lead - Yonder
I am an enthusiastic Pythonista, Community Lead and a Bass Guitar player :D I've been working as a full stack …
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4-wheeled Python with Raspberry Pi
Hey Pythonistas, have you ever thought of creating a project in IoT, home automation or just play with sensors as …
William Galindez Arias
Consultant - Devoteam
Born and raised in Colombia, studied Electronic Engineering and specialized in Digital Electronics, former exchange student in Czech Technical University …
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NLP for Dinner - Chatbot language learning
I used Python + Rasa NLU powered by Tensorflow and Recurrent neural Networks architecture to create a bot that understands …
Željko Vrbaški
Engineering Team Lead - Seven Bridges
Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated decade long history of working within the IT industry. Five years old pythonista, working …
TLK PyCon Talk
Snakes and Magic
We were given a bit strange set of requirements asking of us to make Python not work as it regularly …