Python Pandas creator Wes McKinney joins Posit

Python pandas creator Wes McKinney has joined Posit as a principal architect, a transfer that alerts the corporate’s growing seriousness about being a key participant within the Python universe in addition to the R ecosystem.

“I’ll advocate for the wants of the PyData ecosystem in Posit’s work in addition to proceed advancing vital open-source initiatives,” McKinney wrote in a blog post Monday. Together with being recognized for the pandas information evaluation library, McKinney has labored on different open-source initiatives together with Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet, and Ibis. He’s additionally a co-founder of Voltron Information, which focuses on composable enterprise information programs.

McKinney’s transfer highlights a continued enlargement of mission for Posit, a company once known as RStudio with a main concentrate on the R programming language and its standard RStudio IDE. The corporate modified its identify final 12 months, pledging to not forsake R however to assist data science practitioners and groups who use each R and Python.

In the previous few years Posit has launched a Python model of its Shiny Net framework, unveiled the Quarto technical publishing platform that’s equally pleasant to R, Python, and Observable JavaScript, and promoted its Posit Join enterprise information platform for collaboration and communication work in each R and Python.