Travis Oliphant
About Travis Oliphant
As the CEO of OpenTeams and Quansight, I lead two companies that connect companies with open source communities and experts, and help them leverage the power of data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. With over 20 years of experience in scientific computing, I have created and contributed to some of the most widely used Python libraries and tools, such as NumPy, SciPy, Numba, Conda, and Jupyter. My mission is to build successful businesses based on open source, while improving how programs are written and data is analyzed. I enjoy taking concepts and seeing them to production by marshaling resources and people, simplifying complex ideas with programming, and developing products that make it easy for scientists, engineers, and anyone else dealing with data, to take their domain expertise and utilize the computer as a general purpose tool. I also serve as a strategic advisor to several startups and organizations in the data science and open source space, such as bodo.ai, Saturn Cloud, and NumFOCUS.