Speaker Profile: Scott Sanderson (@scottbsanderson)
Scott Sanderson is an engineer at Quantopian, where he is responsible for the design of Quantopian’s backtesting and research APIs. He is a core developer on open source Zipline project, and he is a regular contributor to several projects in the PyData ecosystem, including IPython and JupyterHub.
Scott graduated from Williams College in 2013 with bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy.
In his spare time, Scott enjoys rock climbing, board games, and yelling at people to stop using **kwargs.
Scott will be presenting “Unspeakably Evil Hacks in Service of Marginally Improved Syntax: “Compile-Time” Python Programming” at 2PM Saturday. One of Python’s strengths as a dynamic language its suite of powerful metaprogramming tools. What happens, however, when you want to move beyond the tools provided by “traditional” metaprogramming techniques.
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