Welcome to the 17th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! Our special guest this time around is Dr. Sarah Kaiser, Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Sarah is an experimental physicist 👩‍🔬 with a PhD in Quantum Computing, and in this episode she talks a bit of her professional journey from academia 🎓  to software engineering 💻 and now to advocacy 👩‍💻, with Python being there every step of the way.  

This is a super fun and inspiring episode, where we dive into Sarah's passion for helping others working on scientific Python applications find and use the right tools to create amazing things. We also get a sneak peek into some of the amazing stories from her career, featuring some laser-shooting 💥 and a lot of Python 🐍.

This episode was recorded on March 24th, 2023.  

Links and resources:

• Sarah Kaiser's website


• Sarah @ Mastodon


• Sarah @ GitHub


• Sarah @ LinkedIn


• Pyladies


• Quantum mechanics


• Mathematica


• Quantum key distribution devices: How to make them and how to break them, by Dr. Sarah Kaiser


• PyCascades 2023


• Sarah's talk at PyCascades, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Development Environment"


• Dev containers


• Duecredit Python package


• NumFOCUS


• SciPy community


• Unitary fund


• Soojin Choi's episode


• VS Code extensions:




• Live Share


• Data Wrangler


• Jupyter notebooks


• VS Code Profiles




• Anaconda


• Python extension's Create environment command


• GitHub Jupyter Notebook Rich Diff feedback discussion


• GitHub Codespaces


• To Zanarkand, part of Final Fantasy X Soundtrack

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare