Lysandros Nikolaou

Lysandros works as a Senior Software Engineer at Quansight Labs, where he spends most of his time on CPython and the PyData ecosystem. He is a CPython core developer, specializing in the parser, the tokenizer and the REPL. He recently worked on supercharging f-strings in Python 3.12, the new REPL for Python 3.13 and introducing fast string ufuncs in NumPy 2.0. Currently, he's mostly dealing with improving support for free-threaded Python in the PyData ecosystem.