Speakers at PyCon 2025
These speakers await you at the upcoming conference. Please note that the program is subject to change.
Radovan Bacovic is a Staff Data Engineer at GitLab, living, enjoying and coding in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Part of the Data gigants ambassador program: Snowflake Squad and dbt spotlight members.
An experienced data engineer and “wanna-be” is the best bad conference speaker. Forever eager to discover new data technologies in the fast-changing environment. He armoured himself with a profound application development background in large international companies around the globe. Strongly advocated for the open-source community and open-core approach.
Without any doubt – a fervent data geek delighted to share his long mileage and experience with a broader audience.
He was trapped in the Data world for 20 years. Passionate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner.
I am a machine learning engineer and Pythonista from Czechia. My specialization lies at developing end-to-end machine learning solutions and deploying them into production.
List of my favorites is following:
- color: beige
- animal: polar bear
- food: pizza hawaii
- member of One Direction: Harry Styles
Týna Doležalová is a geospatial data scientist with a passion for making data accessible and engaging. As an organizer of PyLadies Vienna, she helps beginners take their first steps in Python and data science. She has years of experience working with geospatial data, web scraping, and data analysis, and she enjoys sharing her knowledge in a practical, beginner-friendly way.
Over the past 10 years, I’ve worked at three different companies, with most of my experience centered around hardware and automation. My journey includes:
- Working with industrial GPS receivers and devices that control heavy machinery.
- Participating in a research project on an autonomous tractor.
- Leading the development of both hardware and software for a test station used in the mass production of smart speakers. This system operated 24/7, and I even had the opportunity to act as the team lead for this initiative.
In recent years, I’ve been working with payment terminals, further expanding my expertise.
Crafting Great APIs for Libraries: Lessons from the Good, the Bad, and the Delightful
Interested in NLP, Linguistics, Behavioral Economics, Deep Learning, Analytics, and Academia. When not consumed with work, I post YouTube videos, make Discord bots, write Twitter threads, work on automation/web app projects on GitHub, or try threading some words on Medium Blog.
PJ Hagerty is a well-known figure in the tech industry, particularly within the Developer Relations, Open Source and DevOps communities. He is recognized for his work as a Developer advocate, community builder, writer, and speaker. He is also known as the founder of DevRelate.io. He currently works as Lead, AI Advocacy for IBM.
My name is Horst JENS, I have been working as an IT trainer and programmer in Vienna for over 30 years.
I founded Game-Programming to be able to combine my favorite activity with my job: teaching young students to program and publish their own computer games.
My focus is on teaching the Python programming language and the use of free software (Free/Libre Open Source) for operating systems, programming languages and applications.
I am particularly proud when my (young) students publish the programming projects they have created in the course on the Internet and thereby gain reputation and attention. Programming students of mine have taken part in the Ars Electronica national U-19 competition several times and won prizes. I am particularly happy when my (adult) customers tell me that they have been able to solve a time-consuming problem or have opened up a new career field thanks to the programming knowledge they acquired in the course.
Aivars Kalvāns is a FinTech developer, software architect, and consultant. He spent more than 18 years developing
and architecting payment card software for acquiring and issuing, accounting and utility payments through mobile phones, ATMs, and POS terminals.
At the moment he is a contractor for Ebury exploring the Foreign Exchange area of the FinTech landscape.
Bewegende Architektur e.U. is at the intersection of art and technology, between science and craftsmanship. The idea centers around robots that transform everyday functions into a dance. Beside running my company i am teaching digital methods at the University of Art and Design Linz and the Technical University of Vienna. As a self-taught coder and programmer, I have been working with Linux and other open-source projects for over two decades. In addition to Python, I work with C++ and JavaScript, as well as node-based systems like Geometry Nodes.
Computer Engineer with +10 years in software development, working on e-commerce, biotech, fintech, and AI. Nowadays, Product Labs Dev at Halborn, and previously Staff Engineer at Distro (YC 2024). My last outstanding project was a capstone report for the “Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree” program at Udacity: “Ensemble of Generative Adversarial Networks as a Data Augmentation Technique for Alzheimer research” which I presented at PyCon Bolivia 2022, and PyCon Italia 2023.
I am currently establishing Edutech Startup in Indonesia which hold position as a Director. My specific research interests are in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Music Retrieval, Computer Science and Programming. I Use only Python Programming as a tools for research and my startup. I graduated from Universitas Indonesia both bachelor and master degree. Beyond my activities, I also faculty member / assistant professor at UPN Veteran Jakarta Indonesia for both teaching and research activities focus on Machine Learning and python programming.
Abhishek is a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in frontend and backend development. At Swiggy, he built a UI used by over 10 million users daily and worked on scalable backend systems. He created an open-source video streaming service in Golang, 200+ GitHub stars and counting. Currently, at Observe AI, he is building an AI Voice Agent Platform. He also shares insights as a tech writer and enjoys exploring new technologies.
Senior Software Engineer. SciPy and SALib maintainer. Scientific Python SPEC Steering Committee.
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pamphile-Roy/publications
Using Python to make the sun shine and the wind blow. Greedy polyglot, sustainable urbanist, unicode collector, Python Software Foundation Fellow.
I have been working in tech for over 35 years, and am passionate about open source and emerging technologies, and how they help developers build better software.
My name is Lidiane, but feel free to call me Lidi. I’m a Brazilian software engineer who has been working in web development since 2015 — partly in Brazil, partly in Berlin, and now in London, where I work at Artsy. While I primarily see myself as a back-end engineer, I’ve been striving to balance that with front-end work over the past couple of years. Outside of tech, I spend most of my time playing with my two lovely dogs, baking sourdough bread, or exploring vegan restaurants with my partner.