Iisakki Rotko

Hey!

I'm Iisakki Rotko, a software developer based in Groningen, the Netherlands. Currently I'm working for a company called Widgetti.

I work at the interface between Python tools and the front-end, within the Jupyter ecosystem and beyond. My primary contributions are to our pure Python web app framework Solara and our Python in the browser technology at PyCafe.

In my free time I like to tinker with my personal projects, boulder, and play videogames. I try to write some things for my blog whenever inspiration strikes, whatever it strikes about.

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Experience

Now8/2024
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Software Engineer

At Widgetti, I work on building tools for data scientists and engineers. I contribute primarily to our two main projects; Solara and PyCafe. Solara is an open source, pure python webapp solution. It builds on top of FastAPI and ipywidgets to provide a proper full-stack, batteries included framework. PyCafe is our Python in the browser platform. We build on top of Pyodide to enable more rich and interactive Python experiences in the browser, including supporting most large Python dashboarding tools. I also work independently on client projects, and contribute to community management.

Technologies

8/2023
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Junior Software Engineer

I started at Widgetti after graduating from my masters' in Physics. I started contributing to the Solara project immediately upon joining, and over the course of the year my responsibilities expanded to include work on related open source projects, as well as client projects. I also hosted a hackathon for Solara in cooperations with the wonderful folks at Ploomber.

Technologies

Media

In September 2024, I had the priviledge to give a talk at PyData Paris. My talk had two parts

  • Using Solara to build large scale web apps
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  • Some insights from our work on building a reactive programming system.

You can watch the talk here, or in the other panel.

Parts of the work from my masters' thesis, together with work of collaborators, were adapted into a paper titled P-brane Galilean and Carrollian Geometries and Gravities, published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. You can find the paper here.