I’m Juanita! I’m a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz and the Community Manager for the Scientific Python Project.
- 🎓 I completed my undergrad in pure mathematics at Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.
- 👩💻 I was a 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 currently a community manager for the Scientific Python Project, helping grow and coordinate the scientific Python ecosystem.
- 📢 I’m part of the SciPy Conference organizing committee as a Communications Chair, helping with outreach and engagement for the conference.
- 🔐 I do research in open source security in collaboration with the Open Source Program Office at UCSC.
- 🎶 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
- 📧 Send me an email: [email protected]
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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"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
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"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, 2022
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"Scientific Python - From Github to TikTok" - PyCon Colombia 2022, 2022
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"Spyder says: ‘Let’s get Millennial’" - PyCon US - Maintainers Summit 2021, 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.
Click to see my blogposts!
- "Recipe for Discovery: Building the UC Open Source Repository Browser from Scratch" - Open Source Summit North America 2025 - Denver, Colorado (Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 11:00am - 11:40am MDT)