James Powell

I work with open source data science tools, with a focus on technologies written in Python and applications of these technologies to problems in quantitative finance.

I am interested in building a richer community surrounding these tools and technologies, and dedicate a significant amount of my time to organising events and groups that support this ecosystem.

I have chaired a number of conferences, including over eight PyData (https://pydata.org) events, one regional Python conference (http://pygotham.org), two finance industry conferences (http://forpythonquants.com), and one data science and machine learning conference (http://opendatascicon.com)

I have also given over 40 talks on advanced Python topics at over 25 conferences in over 8 countries.