Travis Oliphant

Travis Oliphant

NumPy Creator

NumPy SciPy Anaconda

Biography

Travis Oliphant created NumPy and SciPy, founded Anaconda, and shaped the Python data science ecosystem.

Daily Work

  • Working on data science tooling
  • Advising companies
  • Speaking about scientific Python
  • Building community

Challenges

“Python wasn’t designed for scientific computing. We had to build the infrastructure ourselves.”

Impact

NumPy is the foundation of scientific Python, enabling data science, machine learning, and research worldwide.