Santa Cruz PyLadies Speaker Night

Every four weeks, PyLadies will have a speaker from the community teach us something interesting and/or talk about the awesome stuff they're working on!

The meetup will start at 6, with some snacks and beverages, and the talk(s) will start around 6:30.

This week, our speaker is Chris Wellens! She will give a demo of our KMAX Network Emulator and show the Python parts of the architecture, including the CLI which is in Python. She will walk us through an example of testing a product with KMAX to see how it performs under adverse network conditions (this will be hypothetical; an easy to understand example).

Speaker Bio:
Chris Wellens founded IWL in 1993 as a spinoff from the Interop Company, where she was the Director of Technology Marketing. In this capacity she provided leadership for the 5,000 node "InteropNet" as well as technology showcases. Prior to Interop Chris held management positions in marketing and engineering for Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), with specific responsibilities for networking and operating systems and the integration of third-party products to the Sun environment.

Chris was an instructor in Software Product Marketing at UC Berkeley Extension and Introduction to Unix and C Programming at UCLA Extension. Chris has served on the Board of Shakespeare Santa Cruz and YumaWorks. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.S. from the University of Southern California.