Michael Droettboom
Employers on the program
- 2023–2025Microsoft4 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
- JuliaCon
- SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2026 | PyCon US 2026 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | Panel: Fostering better collaboration between the scientific Python community and core Python development We often think about “the Python Community” as a monolith, but in reality it behaves more like a collection of diverse sub-communities. | Video |
| May 14, 2025 | PyCon US 2025 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | Going faster in all directions at once: How two teams are working together to make Python better for all as Microsoft Two separate, but related, projects to make CPython faster are currently happening at the same time. The first, funded by Microsoft, aims to improve the…Show lessTwo separate, but related, projects to make CPython faster are currently happening at the same time. The first, funded by Microsoft, aims to improve the single-threaded performance of CPython (PEP 659, PEP 744). | Video |
| May 15, 2024 | PyCon US 2024 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | Measuring the performance of CPython as Microsoft Over the last few years, improving performance has been one of the main areas of focus for CPython. This talk focuses on how CPython's performance is measured,…Show lessOver the last few years, improving performance has been one of the main areas of focus for CPython. This talk focuses on how CPython's performance is measured, and what it means when we say that one version is X% faster than another. | Video |
| Jul 10, 2023 | SciPy 2023 | SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python) | keynote | Untitled as Microsoft | |
| Jul 10, 2023 | SciPy 2023 | SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python) | speaker | [BoF Room 103] CPython performanceDiscuss the effects of recent and potential performance improvements on the scientific Python packages. The goal is to discuss the cost/benefit tradeoffs of…Show lessDiscuss the effects of recent and potential performance improvements on the scientific Python packages. The goal is to discuss the cost/benefit tradeoffs of adapting existing libraries to take advantage of potential improvements, especially per-interpreter GIL and nogil, but also type specializations in the interpreter. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 | SciPy 2023 | SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python) | speaker | Keynote - Open Source Contributors in Space and Time as Microsoft Michael Droettboom is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft where he leads the CPython Performance Engineering Team. That team contributes…Show lessMichael Droettboom is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft where he leads the CPython Performance Engineering Team. That team contributes directly to the upstream CPython project, and recently helped make Python 3.11 up to 60% faster than 3.10. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 | JuliaCon 2019 | JuliaCon | lightning | Pyodide: The scientific Python stack compiled to WebAssembly Pyodide is a project from Mozilla to build a performant scientific Python stack running entirely in the web browser using WebAssembly. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koudai Aono | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Mia Bajić | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Pablo Galindo Salgado | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Paul Ganssle | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Russell Keith-Magee | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Sarah Kaiser | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Monahan | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Patrick Hoefler | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Jonathan Dekhtiar | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| amanda casari | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Andres Pineda | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Brett Slatkin | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Bruce Eckel | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Camila Hinojosa Añez | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Catherine Nelson | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.