I'm Juanita! I'm an open source advocate and community leader who loves building the people and process side of software, from communities and documentation to security and sustainability.
- 🌍 I lead open source sustainability programs at NVIDIA.
- 🎓 I hold a PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz, where my research focused on open source security in collaboration with the Open Source Program Office at UCSC.
- 🌱 I'm a community manager for the Scientific Python Project, helping grow and coordinate the scientific Python ecosystem.
- 📢 I've been part of the SciPy Conference organizing committee as Communications Chair, helping with outreach and engagement.
- 🐍 I am the co-chair of the Security Track at PyCon US.
- 🤓 I completed my undergrad in pure mathematics at Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.
- 👩💻 I was a core developer for Spyder IDE at Quansight, which is when I started actively contributing to open source and became a huge open source advocate.
- 🎶 I'm a singer, and I play some piano and guitar. I've been in multiple bands, choirs and music groups.
- 📫 Connect with me on LinkedIn
I love speaking at conferences and have given talks on topics I'm really passionate about, including community building, documentation and open source security.
Click to see my talks!
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"Hidden in Plain Sight: Discovering the Academic Open Source Landscape" - Open Source Summit North America, 2026
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"Hidden in Plain Sight: Discovering the University of California Open Source Landscape" - University of California Open Summit (UC Open), 2026
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"How Secure is Academic Open Source? Insights From the UC OSPO Network" - KubeCon (Open Source Security Con), 2025
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"Recipe for Discovery: Building the UC Open Source Repository Browser from Scratch" - Free and Open Source Software Yearly Conference (FOSSY), 2025
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"Recipe for Discovery: Building the UC Open Source Repository Browser from Scratch" - Open Source Summit North America, 2025
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"Understanding the XZ Security Breach and Open Source Security" - Panel at Berkeley Institute for Data Science, 2024
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"Scientific Python - From Github to TikTok" - LLM Avalanche, Open Source Summit Europe, 2023
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"Scientific Python - from
__init__to__call__" - SciPy Conference, 2023 -
"Building a Stronger Open Source Python Data Community: Trends, Gaps, and Collaborative Contributions" - Panel at PyData Seattle, 2023
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"Increasing Research Impact Through Open Source and Open Data" - OSSci Meetup, 2023
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"Scientific Python - From Github to TikTok" - SciPy Conference, 2022
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"Scientific Python - From Github to TikTok" - PyCon Colombia, 2022
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"Spyder says: 'Let's get Millennial'" - PyCon US Maintainers Summit, 2021
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"Accelerating your research workflow with Spyder" - Workshop at Women in Bioinformatics & Data Science LA, 2020
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"Mejora tu flujo de trabajo en investigación científica con Spyder" - Workshop at Python Medellin Meetup, 2020
I love writing about the things I care about, whether it's documentation, community or just sharing what I'm working on in my job.