PyData Seattle 2025

Josh Starmer is the best-selling author of The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning and The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Neural Networks and AI and is the person behind the popular YouTube channel, StatQuest with Josh Starmer. Josh is called the “Patron Saint of Silicon Valley” because people binge-watch StatQuest videos before job interviews, the “Bill Nye of Statistics” because he makes the topic fun and exciting, and the “Bob Ross of Data” because he helps people relax by cutting through the hype and by singing Silly Songs.

At Databricks, Zaheera Valani is a VP of Engineering & Site Lead for our growing Seattle and Bellevue offices. She leads the Databricks SQL Experiences, Partner Ecosystem, and  AI/BI teams. Prior to Databricks, Zaheera was the Vice President of Product Development at Tableau leading the Data Management organization. She started out her career as a software engineer on Microsoft Excel. She is passionate about data, analytics, engineering and has grown teams and shipped widely adopted data and analytics products during her 20+ year career in technology.

Chang She is CEO/Co-founder at Eto Labs building modern data infrastructure for AI. Previously he architected the ML and experimentation stack at TubiTV as VP of Engineering. In the mythical pre-pandemic epoch, Chang was the 2nd major contributor to Pandas, CTO/Co-founder of DataPad, and a recovering financial quant.