James Powell

James Powell is a NYC-based Python programmer with experience in quantitative finance and data science. He's also very active in the Python community, where he organizes NYC Python (http://nycpython.org) which is the world's largest and most active Python meetup group. He also works with the numeric & scientific computing non-profit NumFOCUS (http://numfocus.org) to help organize the PyData conference series (http://pydata.org) In addition, he's a frequent speaker at Python conferences, and has been invited to speak at events such as PyData New York, PyData London, PyGotham, the conference ‘For Python Quants,’ and PyCon Spain.