Wes McKinney

Wes McKinney is an American statistician, data scientist and businessman. He was the CEO and founder of technology startup Datapad. He is the BDFL of the open-source Pandas package for data analysis in the Python programming language, and has also authored two versions of the reference book Python for Data Analysis. He worked as a software engineer for Cloudera following their acquisition of Datapad in 2014. He is now a software engineer at Two Sigma Investments.

McKinney graduated from MIT with an S.B. in Mathematics in 2007. He is on leave from the Duke University Ph.D program in Statistics.

From 2007 to 2010, he researched global macro and credit trading strategies at AQR Capital Management. From 2010 to 2012, he served as a Python consultant to hedge funds and banks while developing Pandas. In 2012 he co-founded Lambda Foundry Inc.

McKinney co-founded Datapad in January 2013. He was funded by Accel Partners and others. Datapad was acquired by Cloudera in September 2014. He is currently working on an open-source project called Ibis, incubated within Cloudera Labs, aiming at using Python for big data problems.

McKinney has been interviewed by VentureBeat and others. He frequently gives talks to the Python community.

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