Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez

Principal Product Manager

• Define the vision and strategy for Kedro, accounting for viability and value risks
• Grew Kedro to a graduate project of LF AI & Data, reaching 10 000 GitHub stars, 6 members of the Technical Steering Committee, and 500 000+ monthly PyPI downloads
• Gave conference talks and workshops at more than 15 events, including EuroPython, PyData Global, PyData London, AMLD EPFL
• Manage a team of 15 people, including software engineers, technical writers, designers, and junior product managers
• Conducted regular user interviews to discover pain points, with a focus on Data Science teams at big corporations

Data Scientist Advocate

• Set up and manage internal data architecture on top of Orchest itself, including ELT pipelines and BI dashboards for the CEO and investors
• Coded several examples of using Orchest for data ingestion and visualisation
• Wrote several technical blog posts reaching tens of thousands of views on Reddit
• Be among the first people other than the author to give a conference talk about Polars

Developer Advocate

• Wrote the first official Sphinx tutorial with input from the community
• Delivered several conference talks and workshops on how to author documentation with Sphinx and MyST, some of which have 15k+ views on YouTube and almost unanimous praise in the comments
• Managed marketing initiatives (email newsletter, company blog, social media accounts)
• Conducted several user interviews to discover common pain points, with a focus on Scientific Computing and Data Science users

Planning & Execution Engineer

• Defined the strategy and open sourced telluric, a Python library for interactive geospatial manipulation
• Maintained orbit-predictor, a Python library for satellite pass calculation, adding several new algorithms
• Implemented an asynchronous task executor for the fleet, running Python on board
• Collaborate in the creation of end-to-end tests with the ground testing equipment using GitLab CI to ensure software would function correctly in orbit

Data Scientist

Quant Developer

Flight Dynamics Engineer

Intern (Loads & Aeroelastics)

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor

Freelance Instructor of Scientific Python Courses

Researcher

Contractor

• Fix defects on astropy.coordinates, ensuring backwards compatibility and good test coverage
• Implement new functionality on astropy.coordinates, ensuring alignment between different maintainers and good test coverage

Freelance - Ship Route Optimization Software for Deep Blue Globe

Freelance Researcher for EU-H2020 project with Boeing R&T Europe

Talk: "Accelerate your Python code with Rust"

2025- - Department of Energy Python Meetup

Workshop: "From zero to MLOps: An open source stack to fight spaghetti ML"

2024-2025 - EuroPython

Talk: "Who needs ChatGPT? Rock solid AI pipelines with Hugging Face and Kedro"

2023-2024 - PyData Global, Data Science Summit, PyData Milano, AMLD

Talk: "Beyond pandas: The great Python dataframe showdown"

2022 - PyCon Lithuania, PyData London, Python Girona, PyCon Spain

Talk: "Document Your Scientific Project With Markdown, Sphinx, and Read the Docs"

2021 - PyData Global, PyCon Spain

Talk: "Per Python ad astra: interactive Astrodynamics with poliastro"

2015-2022 - SciPy US, EuroSciPy, PiterPy, PyCon Spain, SciPyLAT, EuroPython, PyCon Namibia

Co-organizer of PyData Madrid monthly meetups

Creator and maintainer of poliastro

• Design the API and implement high level object-oriented abstractions as well as low level numerical algorithms
• Maintain Continuous Integration infrastructure with different systems over the years (Travis CI, Circle CI, AppVeyor, GitHub Actions) including quality checks, unit tests, and integration tests
• Oversee a team of 1-2 students every summer for different grant programs (Summer of Code in Space, Google Summer of Code)
• Engaged with maintainers of Numba, NumPy, SciPy, Astropy to discuss defects and suggest new features

Chair of Python España

Co-organizer of Python Madrid monthly meetups

Co-organizer of PyConES

Founding Member of Python España

Co-founder and author at Pybonacci