Principal Architect, Arkansas Forestry Division
Wes McKinney
Principal Architect | Arkansas Forestry Division
First heard Sep 2022 on The Business of Open Source
About Wes
Wes McKinney is an American software developer and businessman known for his contributions to data analysis in Python. He is the creator of the pandas package, an open-source tool widely used for data manipulation and analysis. McKinney has authored three editions of the reference book Python for Data Analysis. In addition to pandas, he created Apache Arrow, a cross-language development platform for in-memory data, and Ibis, a unified Python dataframe API. He founded Ursa Labs, which was integrated into Voltron Data in 2021, and he served as CEO of the startup Datapad. McKinney has also worked as a software engineer at Two Sigma Investments. His work has had a significant impact on data science and analytics, and he continues to develop tools that facilitate data analysis and processing.
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Latest episodes
17 on recordThe newest episodes Wes McKinney has appeared on. Open one to see it on its podcast.
AI Worth Using
The Adversarial Review System Every AI Coding Agent Needs with Wes McKinney at Kenn Software
Aug 31, 2026
Vanishing Gradients
Agentic Engineering and the Lost Art of Verification
May 12, 2026
The Joe Reis Show
Wes McKinney on AI Agents, The Mythical Agent Month, and His Wild AI Coding Setup
Apr 8, 2026
Heavybit Podcast Network Master Feed
Data Renegades - Ep. #9, Radical Accountability in Software with Wes McKinney
Mar 3, 2026
Data Renegades
Ep. #9, Radical Accountability in Software with Wes McKinney
Mar 3, 2026
KVOM NewsWatch Podcast
KVOM NewsWatch, Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026
Vanishing Gradients
Episode 69: Python is Dead. Long Live Python! With the Creators of pandas & Parquet
Feb 3, 2026
Data Masters Podcast
How Open Source, Python and AI Are Shaping the Data Future with Wes McKinney of Posit PBC, Voltron Data and Composed Ventures
Jan 7, 2026
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