Thank you reviewers
Pycon India 2023 wholeheartedly thanks the following volunteers (in alphabetic order) who participated in the review process to select talks and workshops at PyCon India 2023. Because of their dedication and expertise, we were able to select the best and most appropriate proposals that would impress the conference attendees. The review panel consists of more volunteers who have chosen to stay anonymous. We also thank them too.
Aman Pandey advocates Free Software, Free Education, and Open Research. His professional expertise primarily lies in Natural Language Processing and Recommendation Engines. Lately, he has been immersing himself in the world of Mathematics, approaching it from a unique perspective and with a newfound enthusiasm. Additionally, he is actively pioneering the application of Data Science within Astronomy, Wildlife Conservation, and Environmental Preservation. Aman is a passionate and driven individual who constantly seeks new ways to learn and grow. He is a valuable asset to any team and is sure to make a positive impact on any project he is involved in. Linkedin
Ashok is a Leadership Coach and Tech Advisor for product-based companies. He worked as a CTO at KC Overseas Education & worked in multiple roles with CarDekho from its inception till he became Unicorn. Ashok has 16 years of experience in the software industry & excels at building and leading multiple applications and teams. He loves coding & teaching. Right now building piptrends.com (pip trends will help you get package downloads stats and their information. Spot trends, pick the winner!) and running a YouTube channel for teaching coding in Telugu. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashoktankala
Pavan is a Technical Lead at OSI Digital, Hyderabad. He works primarily on distributed systems and ML engineering. Previously, he was an early member of Teachmint, a high-growth startup that catered to more than 10 million users focused on technical infrastructure for the education sector. He also contributed to 15+ journal articles and international conference presentations on scientific computing. He is also an active open-source contributor to distributed systems, machine learning, and scientific computing. He holds a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an MS from Stanford University. https://in.linkedin.com/in/pavan-g-71236420b
Samir Thakkar is a chartered accountant who spends most of his waking moments trying to become a proficient Python developer. He consults with various medium and small enterprises in taxation and finance. Samir is eager to enhance his algo trading skills and visualize voluminous legal case laws to comprehend verdicts better. Additionally, he has been experimenting with the APIs of RERA websites.
We want to express our appreciation and gratitude to the following ladies and gentlemen who participated in the review panel at PyCon India 2019. The talk selection process was only possible with their effort and expertise. The review panel comprised a few more people who have chosen to stay anonymous. Many thanks to them, too.
Co-Founder at Pothi.com. Came to Python for ReporLab. Stayed for Django.
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I'm an ML engineer at Scribble Data. When I'm not learning about things I can do with data and Python, I'm reading fantasy fiction novels or thinking of puns to make. I run a book club called Broke Bibliophiles Bangalore (brokebibliophilesbangalore.com) and the local Python chapter - Bangpypers. This was the first time we ran a Pycon India specific meetup at Bangpypers that was very well received and we plan to continue it for next year as well. Cheers!
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Aroma is a graduate fresh out of the National Institute of Technology, Warangal. As a techno-activist she has been a part of many projects that promote diversity and inclusion. She believes that Automation is the path to Inclusion. In 2018, she spoke at PyCon Hyderabad. She reads, writes and enjoys walking to explore places. An ML enthusiast she has about 20+ Coursera Certifications with the respective project work to support her learning in that field. Python is one of her favorite languages and hackathons her favorite party.
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Gaurav G. Punjabi is the co-founder of Coffee, a web and app development startup based out of Chennai. He mainly develops apps for the both platforms and has recently worked quite a bit in NLP for his projects. He is also part of Coffee Workshops, where he has organized workshops for Android development. Currently, apart from his work, you will find him tinkering with NLP in his personal project, Nebula.
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I am the CTO of MCG.ai, we empower businesses with AI and we have been doing it for a long time for some of the biggest companies. My passion is to do research in AI, bring the research to production and make impact on real world.
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Confuzzled demi-geek wiggling devops wand. Current Devops Lead at DigitalAPICraft. Ex DevOps for Razorpay, ZoomCar and Hotstar.
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I'm a data science researcher & nlp consultant at CCBR & HTIC, IIT madras. As a CTO & co.founder at Cephei, IIT madras, We develop state-of-the-art language processing platform services providing various solutions to Medical applications. As a freelancing consultant, I'm open to my contemporaries from multi-disciplinary backgrounds for ideas and solutions and in my free time I permaculture my garden.
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Kiran is a Software Engineer at nilenso. Apart from building systems, he loves reading books and playing Go.
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Co-founder/CTO/Programmer @ Good Karma, Bangalore.
A pragmatic & passionate programmer, lean thinker, eXtreme Programming evangelist, hooked into Continuous Delivery. A mother of two lovely angels.
Speaks @ conferences (both India and abroad) also helps various conferences mainly for their programs and reviews.
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I enjoy writing code to solve problems.
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Niharika Krishnan is a Machine Learning Engineer at TCS where she builds ML & NLP solutions for Walmart, US. With a passion for AI and when not at work, she focuses on projects in the healthcare space. She believes in leveraging technology to help people lead better lives. She has been contributing to the women in tech community as a Mentor for Python at Learn IT Girl and speaker at Google Women Techmakers & Global Diversity CFP meetups in Chennai. With her love for python and a will to encourage young women into tech, she took up the initiative of a PyLadies Chapter in Chennai.
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Scientific Software Developer with a background in Physics.
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Pranshu Bhatnagar is a "full-stack" Data Scientist and a heavy Python user. He is one of the authors of "Data Science for Marketing Analytics". Before doing a fellowship in Machine Learning, he studied Mathematics and Computer Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute.
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"Rajkumar founded Rignova, a cloud application company, in 2014, to cater the needs of manufacturing industry.
He is a Production Engineering graduate from National Institute of Technology, Trichy. He worked for Tata Motors, Pune before creating Rignova. He is a self-taught programmer. His interest in Operations Research led to implementation and creation of many optimization algorithms.
He loves Python and the Python Community. He has 10+ years of experience in Python programming. He also teaches python to students in schools and colleges through his workshops."
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Nikhil currently leads the AI team at Detect Technologies where we work on applying Artificial Intelligence in the Industrial Inspection and Asset Management space to improve productivity and safety, primarily through Computer Vision and Deep Learning
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Shagun is a graduate student at Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, supervised by Dr. Yoshua Bengio and Dr. Jian Tang. His research focuses on lifelong reinforcement learning - training AI systems that can interact with and learn from the physical world (reinforcement learning) and consistently improve as they do so without forgetting the previous knowledge (lifelong learning). He graduated in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee in 2015 and worked as a Machine Learning developer with the Machine Learning team at Adobe Systems for 2 years.
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A decade of Python and counting. Worked on a spectrum of projects ranging from data extraction,indexing, exploration and NLP to full stack web development (and yes, that means a dose of JS, sometimes Golang). Long-term stock investor. Currently bootstrapping sitefitnesshq.com
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Shubham is director at RedHunt Labs with 8+ years of experience in offensive / defensive security and Open Source Intelligence. He is author of DataSploit - an OSINT framework and runs ReconVillage at @defcon. He is review board member at BlackHat Asia, Insec-World Hongkong and RootConf(security) track. He works from the command line, uses vi and loves beer.
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Soham Chatterjee is currently a Graduate Research student at Nanyang Technological University where he is working on Neuromorphic Hardware and Deep Learning. He is also a part of Saama Technologies's AI R&D Research Lab. His main areas of interest/research are Deep Learning, IoT and Quantum Computing. Apart from that, he loves working on open-source projects and is an Intel Software Innovator.
LinkedIn, Twitter, Website
"Soumendra, a self-learned Python developer has been programming for 11+ years, with 7+ years of professional experience across multiple MNCs.
He has been exceptional in the reviewing process and has reviewed 50+ Talk proposals (highest) across six categories.
He is an Open source enthusiast and contributes to many projects like Mozilla, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, etc. Thank You."
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Vaidheeswaran Archana is a graduate student at the National University of Singapore, working under Professor Dipti Srinivasan. She is also the co-founder of Next Tech Lab at SRM Institute of Science and Technology and is the head for the Women in Machine Learning and Data Science Chennai Chapter. Her achievements include winning the Smart India Hackathon 2017 as the first prize under the Ministry of Steel for using machine learning to detect power theft in India. Archana was also invited to the WiPDA conference in Xi’an China for presenting my work in GaN modeling of devices using machine learning, a collaboration with the University of Cambridge. She has around 3 IEEE Xplore Papers (1), (2), and 1 Elsevier papers for her contribution to the Electrical and Machine learning fields. She is part of the AI research lab at Saama Technologies She is also an Intel software innovator. Her interests lie in machine learning, IoT and quantum computing.
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Note: This is the list of CFP reviewers for PyCon India 2019. There were several other people who contributed as volunteers, even with the CFP. They will be credited separately :)
