Description
Lynn Root is a Staff Engineer at Spotify and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Engineering. She is a seasoned speaker on building and maintaining distributed systems & developer tooling, and is a tech lead on Spotify's ML/AI platform. She likes to refer to herself as an "engineer's engineer".
Lynn has been active in the Python community since 2012. She is the Chair of the PyLadies Global Council, a former Director and current fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and a global leader of diversity in the Python community. She is the author & maintainer (when she can) of the interrogate package.
When her hands are not on a keyboard, they are usually fussing with houseplants, holding a bass guitar, or trying to finish one of her many knitting projects.