Sarah is a Research and Experiments Engineer at Mozilla. Previously she was a software engineer at Anaconda. She has been a core developer of the interactive visualization library Bokeh since 2015.

After a brief spell designing ejection seats for fighter jets, her career turned to applying technology to international development. She has worked in many sectors, including mobile health and data collection in Pakistan, Peru, Haiti and elsewhere.

Having coded as a hobby and been a long-time open-source user, in 2012 Sarah decided to become a full-time software engineer. As a full-stack engineer at Aptivate, Sarah built software solutions for the nonprofit sector. In 2014, while working on an open data project for the World Bank, she discovered Bokeh—a data visualization library that doesn’t require you to write Javascript—and was hooked!

The title of Sarah Bird’s talk at PyCon IL 2018 is: “The web is terrifying!”

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