Carlos Cordoba
I got involved with Spyder in 2010 as a volunteer, and became its maintainer in 2013. I worked for Anaconda from 2015 to 2017. The first two years there I created conda packages for Qt, VTK, Boost, Pandoc, Graphviz, CMake, etc (most of my recipes were used by the Conda-forge team when the project started). In my final year I led a team of three developers working on Spyder. I joined Quansight in 2018 and left in 2022. There I managed a team of five developers (hired by Quansight), also in charge of maintaining Spyder. Since then I've been working on Spyder full time thanks to a CZI grant awarded to the project at the end of 2022.
Sessions
PhD students, postdocs and independent researchers often struggle when trying to execute code developed locally in the cloud or HPC clusters for better performance. This is even more difficult if they can't count on IT staff to set up the necessary infrastructure for them on the remote machine, which is common in third-world countries. Spyder 6.1 will come with a whole set of improvements to address that limitation, from setting up a server automatically to easily run code remotely on behalf of users, to manage remote Conda environments and the remote file system from the comfort of a local Spyder installation.