The Team

PyData Seattle meetups are put together by a group of volunteer organizers passionate about OSS and Data Science.

Feel free to reach out to anyone of us with suggestions or just to say hello! 🌷

  • Eloisa Elias T.

    Pacific Northwest No.1 Open Source Event Host. Eloisa is a data scientist and founder of PyData Seattle by NumFOCUS. Chair of PyLadies Seattle. She is founder of Women in Data Science and Women conferences in Seattle, and she is also a Women Techmakers Ambassador and Databricks MVP. Technical Steering Committee Advisor at NumFOCUS. As an active member of the Seattle tech community, Eloisa collaborates with multiple nonprofit tech organizations, city and state governments, and enterprises to promote diversity and inclusion programs to support women and minorities in the tech field.

  • Mike Miranda

    Mike is a Software Engineer at Google who works on GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and contributes to open source projects, mainly in the Kubernetes organization.

  • Karen McFarland

    Karen is on the Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy) and PyData Seattle organizing team and works as a data and analytics lead for a consulting firm in Seattle, Washington

  • Thomas Dao

    SRE/DevOps Architect

  • Mae LaPresta

    Software Engineer at Google

  • Simran Saxena

    Software Engineer | Organizer PyLadies Seattle, WiMLDS Seattle | Google Women TechMakers Ambassador | Google Women TechMakers Scholar

  • Hemie Choi

    Software Engineer | Game Developer

  • Zhichao Diao

    Data Engineer

  • Xiangyang(Olivia) Liu

    Software Developer

  • Stephen Elston

    Principal Consultant, Quantia Analytics LLC. Why I teach Data Science at Harvard Extension School. It is always a rewarding experience to work with the talented students enrolled in courses. I am happy to have the opportunity to share my passion and expertise with our great Division of Continuing Education students. I have spent my career focused on data intensive analysis and large-scale computing. My varied career in technology has allowed me to dive into many application areas.

  • Don Sheu

    Leveraging genuine relationships to provide investors a unique opportunity to reach founders highly likely to deliver returns. Nearly a decade dedicated to building community for open source communities and for my Columbia alumni. For open source, produced a fundraiser for alumni of the Obama White House tech inclusion team. Fundraiser featured creators of C#, TypeScript, Java, Perl, and Python. For Columbia alumni interested in startups, tech, and venture, produced one of the only alumni led conferences for the Columbia community. Conference featured 52 speakers, 80% BIPOC.

  • Denny Lee

    Apache Spark and MLflow contributor; Unity Catalog and Delta Lake maintainer; Developer Relations at Databricks