EuroPython 2017

Sahil Dua

Sahil Dua
Tagline
Software Developer at Booking.com in Deep Learning; Open Source Contributor @ Google, DuckDuckGo, GitHub, Mozilla & Pandas
Website
sahildua.com
Twitter
@https://twitter.com/sahildua2305
Technical interests
Natural Language Processing, Go-Lang, Open-Source, Scientific Libraries (Numpy/Pandas/SciKit/...), Deep Learning
Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Company
Booking.com
Job title
Software Developer
Website
www.booking.com
Compact biography

A passionate open source contributor, Sahil is a core contributor and community leader for DuckDuckGo's open source organization. He weaves the magic in his code with Python, Go, C++, Perl, C, Ruby, PHP and JavaScript. Having mastered these languages all by himself, through self projects and open source contributions, he knows what it takes to not just write code but write code that is readable, efficient and maintainable.

Sahil is a Software Developer at Booking.com in Amsterdam. His current adventure involves leveraging infrastructure to help Booking.com’s internal teams in taking advantage of deep learning techniques at scale.

Before joining Booking.com, he worked with more than 4 startups and also co-founded one back in India. He loves sharing his knowledge and learnings from his adventures in open source. He has been speaking extensively at public conferences like Fosdem Brussels, MobCon Europe, PyCon France & Germany, etc.