--- title: Episode 12: with Juanita Gomez | daily.dev description: PyPodcats episode featuring Juanita Gomez, a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz researching open source security. Juanita shares her journey from contributing to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/episode-12-with-juanita-gomez-usx7wh4se twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Episode 12: with Juanita Gomez | daily.dev og:description: PyPodcats episode featuring Juanita Gomez, a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz researching open source security. Juanita shares her journey from contributing to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/episode-12-with-juanita-gomez-usx7wh4se og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/usX7WH4Se.png og:image:alt: Episode 12: with Juanita Gomez og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Episode 12: with Juanita Gomez **[Planet Python](https://daily.dev/sources/planetpython)** · 37 min read · 7 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary PyPodcats episode featuring Juanita Gomez, a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz researching open source security. Juanita shares her journey from contributing to the Spyder IDE through documentation and community outreach, to becoming a community manager for the Scientific Python project. She discusses practical open source security tips including GitHub's built-in security features, Dependabot, and the OpenSSF Scorecard CLI tool for auditing repositories. The conversation also covers imposter syndrome, being underrepresented as a Latina woman in tech and security, and her background as a singer who auditioned for X Factor Colombia. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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