Kwanstack is an open-source technology software company specializing in tools for data science,

scientific computing, and visualization. They're known for maintaining vital projects such as Jupiter,

the Konda Forge package channel, and the Mamba package manager.

Sylvain Khorley is the CEO of Kwanstack. He joins the podcast to talk about his company.

Konda, Mamba, the new Mamba 2.0

release, software supply chain security, and more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist

and is the founder and CTO of MailPass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity,

cyber insurance, and general software engineering companies.

He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk. Hi, Selvyn, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

Hi, Gregor, thanks for having me here.

Yeah, very exciting to have you here today, Sylvain.

I think a lot of the listeners will know quite a bit about you and the projects

you work on and you might not need any introduction to them, but equally we'll have a lot of

listeners today who know nothing, which is also exciting and you get to talk to some completely

new people in terms of what we're here to talk about today. Generally speaking, it's the Mamba

and through the company, Quantstack. So I think the main thing is just to sort of set the scene here, actually just to ask like what is, you know, you're the CEO of Quantstack and based in Paris. What is Qantasat and sort of what's the relationship to Mamba? How did it come to be, you know, I think a key maintainer of Mamba?

Maybe just start there. Sure. So yes, so QantasTac is a team, mostly. It's a team of open source

maintainers of key projects of the scientific computing ecosystem. So some of the main projects

that we are active in, Jupiter. We're very active in the Jupiter project.

The team comprises over 10 people working full-time on the project.

We've been some of the main drivers in the recent innovations in Jupiter,

such as collaborative editing, the visual debugger for Jupiter Lab, the new version of the

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