Since 2007, Wes Mckinney have been creating fast, easy-to-use data wrangling and statistical computing tools, mostly in the Python programming language. He is best known for creating the pandas project and writing the book Python for Data Analysis. He is also a contributor to the Arrow,Kudu (incubating), and Parquet projects within the Apache Software Foundation. He was the co-founder and CEO of DataPad, and is now the lead software engineer working on Python data tools at Cloudier.