Wes McKinney
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Duke University (PhD)
- Software developer
- Businessman
Wes McKinney | |
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 McKinney in 2015 | |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Duke University (PhD) |
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| Known for | Creator of pandas |
| Website | wesmckinney |
Wes McKinney is an American software developer and businessman. He is the creator and "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL) of the open-source pandas package for data analysis in the Python programming language, and has also authored three versions of the reference book Python for Data Analysis.[1][2] He's also the creator of Apache Arrow, a cross-language development platform for in-memory data, and Ibis, a unified Python dataframe API. He was the CEO and founder of technology startup Datapad. He was a software engineer at Two Sigma Investments. He founded Ursa Labs,[3] which, in 2021, became part of Voltron Data.[4] In 2022, it was announced that Voltron Data had raised $110 million.[5]
In 2007, McKinney graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a BS in Mathematics.[1]
In 2010, McKinney began a PhD program in Statistics at Duke University. He went on leave a year later to focus on his professional projects.[6]
