Hidden Figures of Python | Episode 4

We interviewed Jessica Tegner from Denmark to hear about her journey in technology, from modding Minecraft servers to becoming an open source maintainer.

Playing video games like Minecraft led her to learn programming and to solve problems with coding and technology. She lost the rest of her vision in 2018, but it does not stop her from continuing to tinker with tools and technology. In fact, it motivates her into creating and improving tools to be more accessible to the users.

Jessica is the maintainer of the popular Pypandoc library, which is a Python wrapper for the Pandoc library. She was selected to be a part of the first cohort of the GitHub Accelerator program.

Jessica has spoken at several conferences but aspires to do more, and especially at Python conferences. She wishes that events and conferences would have more accessibility information openly available. Be sure to listen to the episode to learn all about Jessica’s inspiring story!

• Talks and Interviews

• Python
• Open Source
• Pypandoc
• Github Accelerator
• Accessibility