About me

Hi! My name is Pavithra Eswaramoorthy¹. 👋

I’m a Developer Relations professional and an Open Source Sustainer, with over five years of experience working with OSS communities and a background in Computer Science and Engineering.

Work & Open Source#

In my current role at Quansight and Quansight Labs, I work on developer experience initiatives in the PyData ecosystem. In addition to company-wide awareness and community-wide sustainability activities, I focus on relatively young community OSS projects:

• Nebari - data science platform that builds on the JupyterHub project
• conda-store - user-friendly and collaboration-first environment management library that build on the conda ecosystem
• Ragna - Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) orchestration framework

I’m also a part of the core team at Bokeh - a Python library for interactive data visualization. I work on maintenance initiatives including fundraising, developer workflows, project management, and mentorship programs. In my previous DevRel role at Coiled, I worked on Dask with a focus on user and contributor support, OSS project maintenance, community engagement, and dev-evangelism. I started my OSS journey with the Wikimedia Foundation as a Google Season of Docs technical writer, and continued contributing as a volunteer to co-administrate several open source outreach programs.

Values#

✨ Be kind, always

👩🏼‍🎤 Value people before profit

🌱 Bet on and invest in communities

♿️ Equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility shouldn’t be an afterthought

🤝 Everyone has some privilege, so pay it forward whenever you can

Contact me#

If you’d like to speak with me about DevRel, PyData, open source, and more, the best way to reach me is through .

I go by @pavithraes almost everywhere on the internet, and lurk on several community forums including PyLadies, NumFOCUS, Scientific Python, DevRel Collective, and Write The Docs. I’m not active on social media but will reply to direct messages.