Kedro: An open-source project for building maintainable data science pipelines

Kedro is an open-source Python framework to create reproducible, maintainable, and modular data science code. It uses software engineering best practices to help you build production-ready data science pipelines.

This presentation introduces Kedro's core features, including its application of software engineering principles to machine learning projects, seamless transition from development to production, and standardisation for efficient collaboration. We'll also look at a demo of what a Kedro project looks like through our visualisation plugin Kedro-Viz.

Schedule:
⏰ 19:00 - 19:15 Intro to Women Coding Community
⏰ 19:15 - 19:45: Talk by Merel Theisen
⏰ 19:45 - 20:00: Q&A

Speaker: Merel Theisen | LinkedIn
Merel is a Principal Software Engineer at QuantumBlack, currently serving as the tech lead of Kedro, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation. With over eight years of experience in the software industry, her career has been predominantly focused on backend product engineering. Merel is passionate about building products that address real user problems and is committed to creating robust, well-tested software that adheres to good engineering principles. A strong advocate for open-source software, she finds working with the community both inspiring and energising.

Host: Silke Nodwell | LinkedIn
Silke holds an MSci Mathematics, First Class Honours, from Imperial College London. She currently works as a data scientist at TAC Index, where she manages the data quality of 15+ client companies and develops internal quality tools. In addition to her data scientist role, Silke is a Lead at Women Coding Community, where she runs the bookclub, contributes to the technical blog, and organises inspirational talks.

Co-Host: Irina Kamalova
👩🏻 Co-host: Irina Kamalova | LinkedIn
Irina is a Founder of Women Coding Community and a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Revolut.
Her experience as a Software Engineer included working with large projects, search engines, distributed systems, performance issues, and huge data storage.
She’s working at Revolut and building a platform for retail products. That includes support services to handle 40 million clients, huge throughput and provide law latency for data flow. Irina mentoring mid-level engineers, constantly helps her team to tackle the extra mile and help the company to improve an intervening process, onboarding new hires, navigating interns and running knowledge-sharing activities. As a cherry on top, she helped to launch the inner Revolut Women Guild “RevWomen”.

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