PyCon Israel 2024

Adam Kariv is a software engineer (and founder) of While True Industries, an open data consultant and activist.
He has over 25 years of experience in developing, designing and managing software projects, from open-source data-wrangling libraries to enterprise-scale, mission-critical systems developed by over 20 engineers. He is the founder of the Public Knowledge Workshop (‘Hasadna’), an Israeli NGO working to make government data more accessible, and has extensive experience working with civil society organization and government agencies to build better tools for publishing data.

Avi has a relentless curiosity about AI, Security, and Business — and the places where all three connect.
An experienced Software Engineer and Architect, Avi focuses on AI, with deep security insights.

Carine-Belle Feder is a Staff Engineer and Co-Founder of Antidote Health, a company with a mission to build an affordable HMO and make quality healthcare more accessible in the US.

Excited about building and learning new things, she is passionate about diversity and feminism, and shamelessly hopes to make the world a better place, one commit at a time.

I started my career as a programmer in the IDF, where I had the opportunity to take on a rich range of roles: full-stack developer, team lead, and programming course commander.

After being released from the IDF I got into the world of data science and machine learning, in an Israeli nutrition startup that was later acquired by Medtronic, a big medical device company.

I then ventured out on my own as a freelance machine learning practitioner, and now I work with several startups on computer vision / ML problems. In addition I work with Nitzanim (https://nitzanim.tech) as the CTO, helping to create and improve tech-ed programs for youth.

Bachelor's degree in computer science from the Open University, Master's degree in machine learning & data science from Reichman University.

And I have a blog! It's got quite a few posts in Python, too. https://andersource.dev

A software engineering team lead with a warm place in heart for clean code, and a constant vendetta against technical debt. When I'm not automating cybersecurity procedures with Python, I'm usually using it for travel-hacking or supercharging music streaming apps.

Experienced engineer, Senior Tech Lead and Team Leader, most time hands-on full stack and backend development. Developed near real-time data / image processing systems, cloud native microservices and distributed systems. Proficient in Python, C#, Java modern development frameworks and database systems.

Brings 13+ years of experience in all the aspects of information security. Currently, manages two security research teams in supply chain and application security. Passionate about diving deep and understanding how things work under the hood, whether it's complicated systems, code, or a person's mind.

I am Eyal Balla, a python cloud applications developer and manager for around a decade, I have deployed to production numerous times and have suffered from my mistakes and others and lived to tell.
Today in I am the data team lead in Cynerio, a cyber security company which helps hospitals be a more secure place

Gil is a Data Engineer for Wix's great Data Science team.

Previously he was Director of Engineering and VP of Product Management at Answers.com.

Gil Zilberfeld has been in software since childhood, writing BASIC programs on his trusty Sinclair ZX81. He is a trainer and mentor working to make software better.
With more than 25 years of developing commercial software, he has vast experience in software methodology and practices. From unit testing to exploratory testing, design practices to clean code, API to web testing – he’s done it all.
Gil speaks frequently in international conferences about testing, TDD, clean code, and agile practices. He is the author of "Everyday Unit Testing" and “Everyday Spring Testing”, blogs and posts videos on these topics and in his spare time he shoots zombies, for fun.

Guy Pozer is an accomplished ML Software Engineering Team Lead at Mobileye, where he works on accelerating the ML lifecycle. His main areas of expertise lie in the optimization of the neural network training process, with a keen interest in everything from hardware acceleration to research process optimization. Guy leads the development of an SDK that empowers data scientists at Mobileye to research and deploy their solutions to Mobileye’s SOC. He is passionate about integrating the speed of system-level programming languages into the Python ecosystem. His work is a testament to his commitment to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the realm of machine learning.

Haki is a software developer and a technical lead. He takes special interest in databases, web development, software design and performance tuning. Haki also writes about development and performance in his blog hakibenita.com.

Introducing Hila, a distinguished algorithm expert and researcher with over a decade of experience in the AI field. She holds a summa cum laude master's degree from BIU NLP lab and has published her groundbreaking work at top academic events like EMNLP. Hila's contributions have significantly advanced call center call analysis algorithms, leading to five US patents and academic posters showcased at various prestigious venues.
For the last four years, Hila has been a senior data scientist and guild master at Outbrain, focusing on large-scale super-fast algorithms for the native ads domain. Recently, Hila has embarked on a new venture, starting her own consulting firm while also working as a senior data scientist at Now You Know, a pioneering AI E-learning course publishers and creators.
Alongside her technical expertise, Hila is passionate about sharing knowledge and mentoring fellow women in the tech industry. She actively participates in local meetups and international conferences, inspiring and empowering others with her insights and experiences. Hila firmly believes in the importance of fostering a supportive community and helping people navigate the challenges and opportunities in the AI field.

I'm a software developer who loves digging into how things work, even if it means breaking stuff in the process. I spend most of my time building tools and systems in Python and contributing to open-source projects.

Hi there!

I'm Python Backend Engineer from Valerann.

I started my career in tech back in Russia. After making aliyah, I joined Valerann, a British-Israeli company that provides software solutions for toll road operators.

While I am proficient in several programming languages, Python has been my primary language throughout my career. I am passionate about using Python to solve complex problems and create efficient backend systems.

May Walter is an Israeli engineer, researcher, entrepreneur and serial CTO. She is currently co-founder and CTO of Hud, a startup company still in stealth. Before Hud she was a founding team member and CTO at Santa, and prior to that CTO at Bond (acquired by REEF Technology). May served for 8 years in the Israeli intelligence corps, where she managed tens of engineers and security researchers, and worked on a project that won the Israel Defense Award. May is a leadership mentor and frequently speaks about the topics of team building, engineering culture and innovation.

Miki has been shipping bugs to production for over 25 years.
He has a passion for teaching, mentoring, and talking about tech for way too long.
Miki contributes to open source, either his own projects, or external ones - including the Go and Python projects.

Miki wrote several technical books, he's a LinkedIn Learning author and an organiser of Go Israel Meetup, GopherCon
Israel, and PyData Tel Aviv Conference.

When not geeking out, Miki likes to climb, hike all over the world, read books and annoy his family.

Nir Geller is a Senior Software Engineer at Aim Security and a core R&D member, leading the Monitoring & Visibility project. With extensive experience from his tenure in the IDF as a Software Developer Team Lead and Instructor, Nir has a strong background in mentoring and diverse tech projects. He has also contributed to open-source projects, including a popular React library and various Python and JS tools.

Noah has been contributing to Sefaria for the last 10 years, helping build its data science department . His contributions include citation recognition, search and topic modelling.

He has a master's in NLP from Cooper Union and has been focusing on the intersection of NLP with Hebrew.

Sefaria is non-profit, open source organization focusing on uploading and enriching basic texts about Judaism. We uniquely focus on giving third-party developers access to almost all of our underlying data through APIs and documentation.

I have 15 years of experience, most of which I spent working with Python and more recently Rust,
on a variety of projects in networking, data, embedded and more.

Senior Software Architect at CyberArk. Journalist at TheMarker, Lecturer at Ono Academic College and Haifa University, and Blogger at internet-israel.com. Author of 6 books: hebdevbook.com.
Father of four Python developers.

Roy Noyman is an infrastructure data engineer with three years of experience at Wix.com. He works as part of the frameworks team of the data infra group, where he plays a critical role in designing and building scalable infrastructure solutions. In his previous presentation resume, Roy talked inatseveral conferences such as Apache Airflow 2023 and Data.TLV.
Roy has a strong technical background in software engineering, with a degree in computer science from Tel Aviv University.
At Wix.com, Roy has contributed to building and scaling critical infrastructure components such as Apache Airflow and Apache Spark-related products and deployments. He has experience working with tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Colima and deploy and manage infrastructure components in a highly available and fault-tolerant manner.
Roy has also a MBA degree from Tel Aviv University and was the founder of the Coller Business Data Science Students Cluba at TAU.

Software engineer in april.
been a software developer for the last 4 years,
very passionate about code design and architecture.
avid python fan.

Making software with humans and for humans for close to 20 years, doing diverse stuff from algo research and AI to management.
Relentless question asker, problem solver and maker of high-quality software.

Shani Armon is a Researcher and Software Developer. She is a language nerd, and luckily that extends to programming languages, as well as human ones. Shani has 13 years of experience using Python and researches language runtimes at Hud.

I’m an Automation Engineer at Own with a passion for empowering the next generation of female coders. During my time pursuing a degree in Computer Science, I volunteered at AliceCode, a non-profit organization aimed at teaching young girls programming skills.

I taught and mentored over 30 bright and curious young girls (4 groups) in elementary school (ages 9 to 12) on a weekly basis. In addition, I instructed and mentored in one-time hackathons for schools, and participated in various panels and events that AliceCode organized. Through these experiences, I developed a unique perspective on how to effectively introduce Python to children, particularly young girls.

Hi, I'm Tamar :)
I've loved computers since I was 14 and started learning my B.sc in computer since during high school. I quickly fell in love with Python programming, and it's been exciting for me ever since. Now, I have (with your help) the chance to talk about how much I love Python and add the The personal angle and experience from working in the field of software security...
Thank you for thinking about my application.
Sincerely,
Tamar

Tomer is the Tech Lead at april, a startup revolutionizing individual tax filing in the US. Previously he was Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, and is a long time open source advocate and contributor. In his spare time he enjoys drinking craft beer and traveling with his family.

Tsvi Mostovicz is a Senior Verification Engineer and Software & Verification Tech Lead at Intel. With a rich background from RAD Data Communications, AMD, and Marvell, he has honed his expertise in Python and verification engineering. At RAD, Tsvi integrated Jenkins CI pipelines and developed a Python-based regression manager. At Intel, his projects include Python-based code generation with Jinja and static analysis tools.

A Python enthusiast, Tsvi specializes in Jinja and pytest. He maintains the Jewish calendar integration for Home Assistant along with a Hebrew date library. Tsvi has also contributed to open-source projects by creating syntax highlighting files for Specman code in both VSCode and Sublime Text.

Outside work, Tsvi lives in Meitar, Israel, is a father of four, and enjoys reading historical fiction.

Trainer and Web Developer

https://il.linkedin.com/in/udioron

Backend Software Engineer at Valerann. Working on scalable systems in the computer vision and transportation tech fields.

Yishai Zinkin is a member of Granulate’s Research Team, working on the development and deployment of their real-time continuous optimization solution as an expert in low-level programming. Before joining Granulate, Yishai served as a Software Engineer for five years at the Center of Encryption and Information Security of Israel Defense Forces.

פעיל אינטרנט ותיק. 40 שנה של הדרכה, הטמעה ותמיכה טכנית לכל רמות המשתמשים. מפעיל האתר "לא רלוונטי" לבדיקת שמועות אינטרנט והאתר "תולדות הדיגיטל בישראל" לשימור תולדות המיחשוב.

בן 62, חבר הקיבוץ העירוני תמוז בבית שמש.