Python pandas creator Wes McKinney has joined Posit as a principal architect, a move that signals the company’s increasing seriousness about being a key player in the Python universe as well as the R ecosystem.
“I will advocate for the needs of the PyData ecosystem in Posit’s work as well as continue advancing critical open-source initiatives,” McKinney wrote in a blog post Monday. Along with being known for the pandas data analysis library, McKinney has worked on other open-source projects including Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet, and Ibis. He is also a co-founder of Voltron Data, which focuses on composable enterprise data systems.
