open-goverance/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers.md

## Profile Speakers

This year 30 members of Computer Society attended PyCon 2024 in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin.  
PyCon is an international conference about the programming language Python.  
There are several PyCon conferences run in Europe each year, with the Dublin one being one of the largest ones.  
As such there is a large variety of top tier and distinguished presenters.  
While it is a two-day event we were only able to attend the Saturday of it.   


### Mykalin Jones
#### A journey into Regular Expressions
I am a Particle Physicist-turned-Data Analyst with over a decade of teaching experience.   
I have written curricula for various topics including Python for Children, The Basics of Python, Intermediate Python, and Data Science for Beginners.   
I provide individual and group classes on all of these topics as well as maths, science, and standardized test prep.   
I am currently based in France, but I especially enjoy traveling as much as possible and discovering different cultures and languages.   

![Pycon Info card on Mykalin Jones](11._Profile_Speakers_01.jpg)

### Marcel-Jan Krijgsman
#### E-ink dashboards everywhere
Marcel-Jan Krijgsman is a senior data engineer with 25 years experience in data.  
Learning Python when switching his career to data engineering, he used it to plot locations of cycling videos on a map, to land rockets in a computer game and automatically categorise space and astronomy news.  

![Pycon Info card on Marcel-Jan Krijgsman](11._Profile_Speakers_02.jpg)

### Rodrigo Girão Serrão
#### How to implement a Python-like programming language
Rodrigo is an educator for mathematics and Python, particularly in the area of data processing and analysis.

His main section in the conference was a workshop on how to create a new programming language by using Python.  
This was an engaging introduction to compilers, a topic that is only covered by Computer Science in 4th year.  
Within the two hours participants had constructed a small functional language and were given the tools/knowledge to work on it further.
Several of the attendees from our group have continued to work on their own language, taking inspiration from this workshop


![Pycon Info card on Rodrigo Girão Serrão](11._Profile_Speakers_03.jpg)