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Velda Kiara

Velda Kiara is a Software Engineer at REVSYS, where she has been part of the team since 2023. She specializes in Python and Django, contributing her expertise to client projects and to open-source initiatives maintained by REVSYS, such as Django Health Check among others.

A dedicated member of the Django community, Kiara writes Django News Updates for Djangonaut Space and serves as a director for the Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA), the organization behind DjangoCon US.

Her technical leadership has been recognized with a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Python and a fellowship from the Python Software Foundation.

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Boosting SEO with Django Ninja, Pydantic, and JSON-LD

At REVSYS, our first attempt at adding JSON-LD to our sites relied on embedding the data in the Django template. For the most part, this has worked fine, and we've had good results from an SEO perspective. But in terms of maintainability, it has not been the most efficient approach. We have now started transitioning to generating the structured data using Django Ninja and Pydantic. As a result, we now have cleaner templates and better maintainability.

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Velda on the Web

Velda Kiara joined the Django Chat podcast to share her journey from Kenya to London, discussing her path into Django, open source contributions, and her work building community through events, mentorship, and the wider Python ecosystem.

March 11, 2026

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