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]
- ^ McKinney, Wes (2013). Python for Data Analysis (1st ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly. ISBN 978-1449319793.
- ^ McKinney, Wes (2017). Python for Data Analysis (2nd ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly. ISBN 978-1491957660.
- ^ "Announcing Ursa Labs: An innovation lab for open source data science". 19 April 2018.
- ^ McKinney, Wes (2021-08-05). "Wes McKinney - Joining Forces for an Arrow-Native Future". wesmckinney.com. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ Miller, Ron (2022-02-17). "Voltron Data grabs $110M to build startup based on Apache Arrow project". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-02-28.