Speaker Profile: Safia Abdalla (@captainsafia)
Safia is an energetic software engineer with an interest in data science for social good, intelligent interfaces, and great coffee. She is the founder of dsfa, a professional services startup aimed at providing data science services to small businesses. She is also the organizer of PyData Chicago, where she brings an awesome community of developers and data scientist to build amazing open source software. In her free time, she enjoys working out, contributing to Project Jupyter, and teaching people how to be awesome with code.
Safia will be presenting “Popping Kernels: An Exploration of Kernel Development for Jupyter Notebooks” Saturday at 2PM. Jupyter Notebooks allow users to interactively execute code in a variety of languages, powered by kernels in the backend. This talk will introduce individuals to the Jupyter Notebook, Jupyter Messaging Protocol, kernel development, the tools needed to begin developing kernels, and how kernel development is a great way to increase proficiency in a new programming language.
Sponsor Profile: Eventbrite (@eventbrite)
Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service ticketing platform. We build the technology to allow anyone to create, share, find and attend new things to do that fuels their passions and enriches their lives. Music festivals, marathons, conferences, hackathons, air guitar competitions, political rallies, fundraisers, gaming competitions - you name it, we power it. Our mission? To bring the world together through live experiences.
Python and Django power almost everything at Eventbrite–our website, mobile app backends, public APIs, internal tooling and more, and we’re committed to releasing open-source packages so others can benefit and contribute to our work. Whether you’re looking for a grand scaling challenge, trying to improve user experience and performance, building tools to help other developers, investigating how to support the future of mobile ticketing, or simply want to help build a great product and transform an entire industry, we’d love to talk to you.