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Trailer: Episode 6 with Niharika Vadluri

Cheuk Ting Ho, Mariatta · Sep 17, 2024

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00:00 People.

00:00 It's the people of Python community who give

00:04 you that warmth.

00:11 We connected that Raspberry Pi prototype

00:13 which helped in monitoring the power

00:15 fluctuations or power cuts in a particular

00:18 building in my college.

00:20 Whenever I am sad, I am not happy

00:23 working professionally with my job or any

00:25 stress I have. It's always the women in this

00:27 community that I reach out to.

00:30 Python meetups and conferences are I think

00:33 they are my savior.

00:34 While dealing that stress immediately,

00:36 mMy gateway is come to any meet up

00:39 immediately.

00:39 I keep searching is there any meet up.

00:41 Open source detoxing?

00:44 I have brother and my brother is a special child.

00:47 He is autistic but I dont know how can I

00:49 help them.

00:50 Are there any communities that are helping?

00:52 And then I came to Python community.

00:54 This is what I observed being in Python

00:56 community is that

00:56 how well people with disabilities or mental

00:59 disabilities, physical disabilities are

01:00 doing wonders.

01:02 This encouraged me a lot and also was one

01:05 of the aspects that I always wanted to

01:07 emotionally get connected

01:09 and give my best.

01:10 Hello everyone, I am Niharika from India.

01:13 I am a developer at Accenture India.

01:16 I am working as an application developer

01:18 and on meantime other than job I love

01:20 contributing to Python community and other

01:23 open source communities.

01:24 I am really excited to be joining on this

01:26 episode of PyPodcats, but I am really

01:28 excited to be sharing my experiences in

01:31 this episode with fun filled and also with

01:33 a lot of learning.

Sneak Peek of our chat with Niharika Vadluri, hosted by Mariatta Wijaya and Cheuk Ting Ho.

Learn about Niharika’s journey. Graduated during COVID from a women’s university, Niharika faced challenges in finding her dream job, but the Python and open source community gets her going. During her final year’s project, she made an energy monitoring system for her whole campus connected to a Raspberry Pi. Hear all about her work and all the contributions she’s made to the Python community.

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Get to know Niharika Vadluri

Niharika Vadluri

Niharika Vadluri is working as a Packed Application Developer Analyst at Accenture India. She works in Retail Domain and Database Projects. She is an active open source community contributor and developer since 2018. She has been an active member and contributor in The PSF, Hackster.io, FOSSASIA and other Open source communities. She is a Toastmaster, and also loves singing.

Your hosts

Cheuk Ting Ho

Host

After having a career as a Data Scientist and Developer Advocate, Cheuk dedicated her work to the open-source community and working as a community manager at OpenSSF. She has co-founded Humble Data, a beginner Python workshop that has been happening around the world. She has served the EuroPython Society board for two years and is now a fellow and director of the Python Software Foundation.

Mariatta

Host

Mariatta is a Python Core Developer. In her free time, she contributes to open source, builds GitHub bots, fixes typos, and likes to tell you about Python's f-strings. As a public speaker, she has given her talks and keynotes wordwide.

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