Rok Mihevc
Alenka’s bio: My software development journey started with the open source and Apache Arrow project. More specifically, I started with contributing to the Arrow R package in 2021. After that I have contributed to other open source projects connected to the Python dataframe API standard as a part of my internship at Quansight. I became an Apache Arrow committer in 2022 after regularly contributing to Apache Arrow (Python) since 2021. Past talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0mkDXWfLb4
Rok’s bio: Started as a physicist, worked as data scientist and engineer, got interested in data tooling and became an Apache Arrow and Parquet contributor, focusing on the C++ implementation. Would like to see numerical computation become more accessible in general purpose languages and frameworks. Past talk: https://www.youtube.com/live/3KRYObqpMlk?si=0-jzE99YVfWoc29p&t=4685