The Austin Python Meetup Monthly Meetup

We typically have a main presentation or a series of lightning talks, followed by discussion and Q&A. There is a diversity of domains and experience levels represented, so come with your questions and be prepared to talk about how you use Python!

This will be an online meeting - please join the meetup at the link listed. Please note that this link may update and updates may appear in the discussion section below - so scroll down if you have technical difficulties.

The presentations will start after 7, yet feel free to join starting 6:30.

In this meetup we will have the following presentations:

Talk 1: Nam Nguyen will talk about "Giving the gift of your code."

Talk 2: Rakshak Talwar will talk about "Deploying Computer Vision Models to the Edge in the Wild"

Details about the presentations below:

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Talk 1: Nam Nguyen "Giving the gift of your code."

One of the challenges that developers face is that their code is under utilized and under leveraged. Without significant investment into frameworks, user interfaces, permissions, and scheduling, their valuable code is unusable by many people that it could provide value to.
What if developers of other languages or tech savvy business users code leverage your code without modification? How much more value would be achieved? How much could code duplication be reduced? And, what if you could monetize your code?
This presentation will show how to package, wrap, and present the gift of your code across your organization faster than Santa Clause can deliver around the world.

Nam Nguyen is the Founder of Nom Nom Data, a company making code easier to leverage and smoothing collaboration across a spectrum of users. He has had decades of experience working as a data analyst, data architect, data engineer, database administrator, and back-end software developer across various industries. These experiences have framed how he thinks value can be delivered to stake holders around the globe and how organizations can create more efficient cohesive strategies to maintain code and tooling.

Talk 2: Rakshak Talwar "Deploying Computer Vision Models to the Edge in the Wild"

Edge Machine learning benefits from Python's ecosystem from many vantage points.
Python is the lingua franca of machine learning; runs easily on edge hardware such as NVIDIA Jetson and the RPi; and it's large ecosystem of auxiliary software makes putting together PoCs fast and end products extensible.
We will explore how a small team can rapidly test product ideas with actual customer usage and the thought process behind managing the constraints of the messy real world outside of a clean server environment.

Rakshak Talwar is the co-founder and CTO of Zenus, an Austin based facial analysis company which serves the events industry. He has a decade of startup experience ranging from robotics to machine intelligence. Rakshak is an inventor on a pending US patent in biometrics. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Houston, in his hometown.