Ryan Varley
Ryan is SVP of Technology at Boclips, an ed-tech enabling the use of video in education.
With a PhD in astronomy, Ryan has worked across data-centric roles in various startups—from data science and data engineering to leadership roles. He is now responsible for Data, Engineering and Product at Boclips. Ryan's expertise spans machine learning, natural language processing, data pipelines, and large language models, with a core focus on getting data science delivered.
Ryan frequently shares insights on leadership and data on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanvarley/.
Sessions
Asynchronous programming can be intimidating for many due to its unique syntax, paradigm, and different behavior in environments like IPython and Jupyter notebooks.
But it’s not that complicated—and I'll prove it. In this talk, I will demystify the basics, along with some advanced concepts, from a practical perspective. By the end, you'll be ready to get started and implement significant performance improvements in your network or I/O-bound code.
Attend this talk if you’ve been intimidated by async and await for a while and are ready to change that.