SUMANA HARIHARESWARA: A Few Python Tips and a Strange Journey

ABOUT SPEAKER
Sumana Harihareswara is an open source software contributor and project manager with over a decade of experience in the software industry. She led the rollout of the new PyPI.org in 2018 and PyPI’s security/accessibility/localization improvements in 2019. Most recently, Sumana managed improvements to pip's dependency resolver and user experience and expedited the release of new versions of pipenv and autoconf.
Prior to founding Changeset Consulting (www.changeset.nyc) in 2015, Sumana was Senior Technical Writer and Engineering Community Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Sumana’s leadership in nonprofit, academia, and industry earned her an Open Source Citizen Award in 2011 and the Google Open Source Peer Bonus in 2018.
She holds an MS in Technology Management from Columbia University and a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sumanah/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/brainwane

ABOUT TALK
Sumana will share a few tips that make it easier to work effectively with Python -- “a little taste of a lot of useful stuff”. She will discuss the initial setup, tools, best practices, and a few favorite modules.
In the second part of her presentation, Sumana will talk about her "odd" journey to software project management with the hope of providing some solace and encouragement to those who consider transitioning to a career in tech.