Wes McKinney

Principal Architect at Posit PBC

Join us with Wes McKinney at Posit as we discuss advocating for the needs of the PyData ecosystem, his experience as a software entrepreneur and long-time developer of open source projects for data science and analytical computing, and building open source sustainability.

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Rachael Dempsey - Host

Community Manager at Posit, PBC

I love connecting people across the data science community to share what they're accomplishing with data and help others do the same through community discussions, industry meetups, and more.

Wes McKinney

Principal Architect at Posit PBC

Wes is an entrepreneur and open source software developer focusing on data science tools and analytical computing. He’s currently a Principal Architect at Posit PBC. Previously, Wes co-founded Voltron Data and created or co-created the pandas, Apache Arrow, and Ibis projects. He is a Member of The Apache Software Foundation and has published three editions of Python for Data Analysis.