Jocelyne Ariane Djeupang
ML Engineer, Community Builder, OS Advocate, International Speaker, Travel lover
📋 Biography
Ariane Djeupang is a machine learning engineer, technical writer, and content creator with a strong commitment to and a passion for inclusive innovation and community empowerment. She actively contributes to the open source ecosystem, as well as to the Python and Django communities through her leadership and advocacy. Ariane currently chairs the Django Software Foundation’s Diversity and Inclusion working group, chairs the communications team for DjangoCon Africa | UbuCon Africa and PyCon Africa. She is also the co-chair for the DjangoCon US Marketing team and serves on the EuroPython FinAid committee. Through her work she advocates for diversity, sustainability & collaboration in tech, accessibility and opportunities for underrepresented groups across global tech spaces, championing a future where everyone has a seat at the table.
✨ High-Impact Contributions 2
As Chair of PyCon Africa and PyCon Africa 2026, I'm leading Africa's premier Python conference through strategic transformation and organizational restructuring. Serving on the IOC and chairing both Programme and the overall event & organization, I'm mobilizing all African sub-regions to participate: transforming PyCon Africa from a rotating event into a sustainable pan-African movement. Building toward 400+ attendees and 200+ opportunity grants: our largest inclusion effort. Leading sponsor strategy to secure partnerships investing in African tech ecosystems, not just brand visibility. As a young francophone African woman in historically anglophone tech leadership, I'm bridging linguistic/regional divides while managing team conflicts and resource constraints. My approach: prioritizing community sustainability over individual events, building mentorship pipelines, and ensuring African innovation shapes global Python standards, not just adopts them.
DjangoCon Africa is the biggest annual conference celebrating the Python Django web framework and the broader open-source community in Africa, bringing together developers, designers, and tech enthusiasts for talks, workshops, networking, and fostering inclusivity in tech. In 2025, it launched and co-hosted the UbuCon Africa for Ubuntu users. I had the pleasure to present a session on "From Notebook to Production: Deploying Machine Learning Models with Confidence.". The aim was to show/ teach the audience how to move their ML models from the development environment (the notebooks) to a production environment in order to make them usable by their target users; then demystifying the process of moving their models from the development to the production environment.