Fokko Driesprong
Fokko Driesprong is a Staff Open Source Software Engineer at Databricks. He is an Apache Software Foundation member and serves as a committer and PMC on major Apache projects; Avro, Parquet and Iceberg. He's one of the original authors of PyIceberg, a pure Python library to query Iceberg tables, which has over 400k daily downloads. He studied distributed systems at the University of Groningen and now specializes in building scalable cloud-based data pipelines and analytics solutions.
Session
Also this year, at our 10 year anniversary edition of PyData Amsterdam, we’ll host open source sprints! ️ Our open source sprints this year will be 2 sessions in parallel, with leading open source contributors Fokko Driesprong and Rob Zinkov of the respective packages PyIceberg and PyMC.