Mariana is a software developer who deeply cares about the impacts that technology has in the world and tries her best to be the change she wants to see by contributing to open source projects that stand upon libre and diverse standards.

She currently works at QuantStack expanding the Jupyter ecosystem with new libraries and functionalities. She's the creator of SQL-kernels for Jupyter, the cytoscape Jupyter widget, Rhumba the fast R package-manager and a contributor for projects like Mamba and Memestra.