Rudraksh Karpe
Rudraksh Karpe is an GenAI Engineer at ZS Associates, building enterprise-grade Generative AI solutions with a strong focus on privacy and security. Rudraksh is a committed open-source contributor, having participated in Google Summer of Code at openSUSE Project with openSUSE. Rudraksh has spoken internationally at conferences such as openSUSE Conference 2025 Nuremberg, Germany, PyCon US 2025, openSUSE Asia Summit 2024 Tokyo, Japan and Conf KDE India, Pune.
Session
Python is the go-to language in AI for its simplicity, but it often struggles with heavy computations due to the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). This talk shows how Foreign Function Interfaces (FFIs) like Cython, ctypes, cffi, and PyO3 can dramatically enhance Python performance by calling native C, C++, or Rust code. Attendees will learn to identify bottlenecks, apply FFIs effectively, and accelerate AI and data science workflows.