Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez

Juan Luis is an Aerospace Engineer with a passion for STEM, programming, outreach, and sustainability. He has a decade of experience as developer advocate, software engineer, and Python trainer in several industries, and currently he works as Principal Product Manager for Kedro, an open source Python framework for data science, at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey.

He has made significant contributions to the PyData stack and published several open-source packages, the most important one being poliastro, an open-source Python library for orbital mechanics used at space agencies, satellite companies, and universities.

After founding the Python España non-profit and co-organizing the first seven PyCons in Spain, he became a Python Software Foundation Fellow in 2017. Nowadays he is the lead organizer of the PyData Madrid monthly meetups.