Zander Matheson
Zander has a varied data background from data science to data and machine learning infrastructure. He founded and currently heads a startup the develops and maintains the open source project, Bytewax. He has worked in the data space since 2014 at Heroku, GitHub, and an NLP startup.
Sessions
"Python is so slow", "it doesn't scale", "it will hog memory". We've all heard it before. And while sometimes this is true, there are known ways around this and Rust is the newest language on the block making inroads into the Python world for that purpose. In this talk, we're going to explore PyO3 (Sometimes referred to as PyOxide)—a super cool project that lets you bring the speed and safety of Rust into Python with minimal hassle. If you've ever hit a performance wall or if you’ve just been curious about Rust and what it can do, this session is for you. I will share our perspective from building Bytewax with Python and Rust as well as walk through how you can start "Oxidizing" your Python code, making it faster and more efficient, all while keeping the flexibility you love about Python.