Developer Interviews

Welcome to the Developer Interviews page! In this section, you’ll find developer interviews I recorded to inspire more people to contribute to open source and help bridge the gap between users and maintainers. These conversations highlight the stories behind the projects and the human side of open source.

Meet Inessa Pawson

Inessa Pawson from NumPy talks about how she joined the Scientific Python community and how she uses her experience and skills to make the community better.

Meet Marianne Corvellec

Marianne Corvellec from scikit-image talks about how she joined the Scientific Python community and how she became a maintainer.

Meet Pamphile Roy

Pamphile Roy talks about how he became a maintainer for SciPy and shares the work he has been doing with the Scientific Python project!

Meet Ross Barnowski

Ross Barnowski from NumPy and NetworkX talks about how he helps grow the Scientific Python community through his work at these two projects.

Meet Dan Shult

Dan Schult from NetworkX talks about how he joined the Scientific Python community and help it grow through his work at NetworkX.

Meet Alex de Siqueira

Alex de Siqueira from Scikit-image talks about how he started contributing to the Scientific Python community and how he became a maintainer for Scikit-image.

Meet Kira Evans

Kira Evans from the Napari Project talks about how she joined the Scientific Python community and became a maintainer.

Meet Melissa Weber Mendonça

Melissa Weber Mendonça from NumPy talks about how she joined the Scientific Python community, why she loves it, and some of the challenges she has faced.