Wes McKinney
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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.