Tibs

Developer Educator, Aiven

Based in Cambridge, UK

Tibs has spent most of their career as a software developer, working in digital mapping, embedded Linux, and backend cloud services. At the start of 2022, they moved to Aiven and Developer Relations, where they get to learn about cool stuff and help others understand how to use it.

They are fascinated with documentation and how it is written, and have spoken on the history of text markup, and on mechanisms for automated "linting" of text.

They have attended PyCon UK since its inception, and ran the Cambridge Python User Group (CamPUG) from 2007-2022.

Pronouns are they/them or he/him.

Superpowers

  • Python

  • C

  • Ruby

  • Text markup

  • Vale

  • Sphinx

  • PostgreSQL

  • OpenSearch

  • Kafka

  • Terraform

  • Backup

  • FLOSS licensing

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Speaking activities

Past

  • EuroPython 2024

    How I used pgvector and PostgreSQL® to find pictures of me at a party

    Join Tibs at EuroPython in Prague for their session "How I used pgvector and PostgreSQL® to find pictures of me at a party" and have some fun!

    - Watch the video of the talk

    - Find the slides and source code on Aiven Labs

    Jul 8, 2024 - Jul 14, 2024

  • Techsylvania

    Preparing and Using Data for AI with LangChain and OpenSearch®

    A version of this workshop, specifically created for Techsylvania, which took place in Romania, June 2024.

    - Watch the video

    - Find the workshop materials on Aiven Labs

    Jun 26, 2024 - Jun 27, 2024

  • NDC Oslo 2024

    Building a movie recommendation system with TensorFlow and pgvector

    Come build a movie recommendation system from start to finish, utilizing NodeJS, TensorFlow, and PostgreSQL’s extension pgvector.

    - Find the workshop materials on Aiven Labs

    Jun 10, 2024 - Jun 14, 2024

  • NDC London 2024

    Building a movie recommendation system with Tensorflow and PGVector

    Come build a movie recommendation system from start to finish, utilizing NodeJS, TensorFlow, and PostgreSQL’s extension PGVector.

    - Find the workshop materials on Aiven Labs

    Jan 29, 2024 - Feb 2, 2024

  • PyCon UK 2023

    How I used PostgreSQL® to find pictures of me at a party

    At an event, a photographer can take many photos. Which ones do you appear in? Find out how to search for faces using Python, OpenCV, OpenAI and, yes, PostgreSQL®.

    Python ties it all together, and PostgreSQL's pgvector extension allows making SQL queries to find photos with my face.

    - Find the slides and source code on Aiven Labs

    - Watch the video of the talk

    Sep 22, 2023 - Sep 25, 2023

  • EuroPython 2023

    Fish and Chips and Apache Kafka®

    Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard in the data streaming world for sending messages from multiple producers to multiple consumers, in a fast, reliable and scalable manner.

    Learn the basic concepts and how to use it, by modelling a traditional British fish and chips shop!

    - Find the slides and demo code on Aiven Labs

    - Watch the video (please note the corrections in the text below the video)


    Jul 17, 2023 - Jul 23, 2023

  • Write the Docs Prague 2022

    Beyond spellchecking - what else can we check automatically?

    Writing documentation is hard, and spotting errors in that documentation is harder. Learn some of the techniques we can use in a docs-as-code approach to "lint" text automatically.

    - Watch the recording

    - Slides & notes

    Sep 11, 2022 - Sep 13, 2022

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