Presenter

Andy is the CTO of Fashion Metric, a data science company for retail apparel. His specialties include: data science, numerical methods, automated scientific computing, finite element methods, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing. He received his Computer Science PhD at the University of Chicago, held research positions at Argonne National Lab, Sandia National Lab, ICES at the University of Texas-Austin, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center. In industry, Andy served as lead developer at Kove, Inc., where he helped bring a record-breaking SAN disk array to market. Andy also has also worked with big data financial applications at Continuum Analytics and Enthought, Inc.

Andy is a board member of the NumFOCUS foundation and has been involved in the wider scientific Python community since 2006. Andy has contributed to numerous projects in the scientific stack and hopes push for data to become a first class object for scientists worldwide.