We are a distributed team with headquarters in Boston’s Innovation District, and a second office in Seattle. One or more of us can also be found in Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, New York, Texas, Virginia…and Belgium and Portugal!
Jeff AllenSoftware Engineer - Dallas, TX
Jeff’s background is in Computer Science and bioinformatics; it was there that he first encountered R in 2007. After spending many years as an RStudio user and evangelist, he joined the team in 2013.
GitHubAron AtkinsSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA
Aron is a software engineer with experience at a number of Boston-area startups. Most recently, he helped build the Brightcove video platform. He has Mathematics and Computer Science degrees from
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Aron grew up as part of a
farming family and still adores apple cider donuts.
GitHubUriel AvalosSoftware Engineer - Austin, TX
Uriel is a mathematician turned full-stack engineer. He has extensive experience with modern Javascript development as well as various backend technologies. He is the author of a Flux framework called RFlux. He exercises his math skills by implementing machine learning and natural language processing research papers. In his spare time, he also enjoys spending time with his family.
GitHubAaron BergCustomer Success - Little Rock, AR
Aaron is member of the Customer Success team. His background is in building business processes and data systems for commodity companies. Most recently he used R to automate finance, risk management, and reporting activities for a coffee trading business.
GitHubRon BlumQuality Engineer - Boston, MA
Ron is a quality assurance engineer who has primarily worked in tech startups, both software and services companies. His professional experience is in QA and operations, but first he earned an MA in Cognitive Psychology and a BS in History. Outside of investigating bugs, he enjoys writing about pop culture and fervently watches movies.
GitHubPhil BowsherCustomer Success - Indianapolis, IN
Phil is a Sr. Account Executive in Customer Success at RStudio. His background is in analytical programs and consulting. He has experience at a number of technology and consulting corporations working in data science teams and delivering innovative data products.
GitHubJessica BrennanBusiness Manager - Boston, MA
Jessica’s background is in Business Management. She has previous experience in startups. Most recently, she worked for Brightcove under Tareef Kawaf for five out of her seven years there.
Jennifer BryanSoftware Engineer - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Jenny is a recovering biostatistician who takes special delight in eliminating the small agonies of data analysis. She’s part of Hadley’s team, working on R packages and integrating them into fluid workflows. She’s been working in R/S for over 20 years, serves in the leadership of
rOpenSci and
Forwards, and is an Ordinary Member of the
R Foundation. Jenny is an Associate Professor of Statistics (on leave) at the University of British Columbia, where she created the course
STAT 545.
GitHubBill CarneyMarketing - Boston, MA
Bill has a wide range of cross–functional experience building and leading organizations through accelerated growth, expansion, product development and market differentiation. He has been in and led sales & marketing teams his entire career from early stage start-ups such as RStudio, VisibleGains, Veracode, ByAllAccounts and Spotfire to larger companies like TIBCO, Stratus Technologies, and Anixter.
GitHubAnne CaromeEvents - Boston, MA
Anne has a background in sales & training, and has worked for companies such as Thomson Reuters and Forrester Research. Originally from Wisconsin, Anne has called Boston home for over 10 years.
Mine Çetinkaya-RundelData Scientist and Professional Educator - Durham, NC
Mine is Professional Educator at RStudio and Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke University. Her work focuses on innovation in statistics pedagogy, with an emphasis on computation, reproducible research, open-source education, and student-centered learning. She is the author of three open-source introductory statistics textbooks as part of the
OpenIntro project and teaches the popular
Statistics with R MOOC on Coursera.
GitHubWinston ChangSoftware Engineer - Minneapolis, MN
Winston is a software engineer at RStudio, and is a developer for the Shiny, ggplot2, and devtools packages. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University and is the author of
R Graphics Cookbook, published by O’Reilly Media.
GitHubChaita ChaudhariQuality Engineer - Austin, TX
Chaita is a Quality Engineer who has worked across Retail, Publishing & Gaming domains. She holds a degree in Computer Science and Business Administration. Born in India, she lived in London before making Austin her home. Apart from breaking stuff, her hobbies include theater, coaching math pentathlon and is a fan of ‘Walking Dead’.
Joe ChengCTO - Seattle, WA
Joe is a software engineer who has worked at a number of startups including Allaire, Upromise, and Onfolio. He also worked on
Windows Live Writer.
GitHubJay ClarkSupport Engineer - Long Island, NY
Jay is a U.S. Air Force veteran with IT, Wall Street, banking, and fund management experience. He has provided technical support to several military groups and has over 15 years of experience using Linux and Unix. Most recently Jay managed a private fund with a focus on algorithmic trading using R with C++ and CUDA.
GitHubJim ClemensVP Customer Success - Boston, MA
Jim has built Sales and Services functions for numerous high growth technology companies including SGI, Macromedia, Frictionless Commerce, Oat Systems and Bit9. He holds a Computer Science degree from Dartmouth College.
Alan DipertSoftware Engineer - Los Angeles, CA
Alan is a software engineer on the Shiny team. In the past, he’s helped build web applications, reporting pipelines, and many things between. When he’s not working, Alan likes to spend his time reading or being with his family.
Karl FeinaurSoftware Engineer -Dallas, TX
Karl is a software engineer on the RStudio IDE. In the past, he’s written distributed server applications for the finance, hospitality, and data storage industries.
GitHubAmanda GadrowSoftware Engineer - Newark, OH
Amanda has solved problems at small Boston-based startups for many years. She has experience building high-quality software in various roles, including customer support, test strategy and automation, and product management.
GitHubChad GlendeninSoftware Engineer -Plano, TX
Chad is an engineer who has built software for finance, real-estate, e-commerce, and education while working for startups and larger companies in Chicago and in Silicon Valley. During a stint in academia at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, he worked on parallel computing, modeled ocean circulation, visualized supernovas, and got his first exposure to R.
GitHubGarrett GrolemundData Scientist and Master Instructor - Orlando, FL
Garrett excels at teaching, statistics, and teaching statistics. He wrote the popular lubridate package and is the author of Hands On Programming with R and the upcoming book, Data Science with R, from O’Reilly Media. He holds a PhD in Statistics and specializes in Data Visualization.
GitHubDarby HadleyQA Engineer - Austin, TX
Darby is a QA engineer that has worked primarily in the video game industry. He has tested everything from AAA games to web applications with work ranging from automation development to management. GitHub Lionel HenrySoftware Engineer - Belgium
Lionel is a software developer at RStudio. He studied political
science and statistics, developed a passion for writing R packages,
and now assists Hadley in creating a rich data analysis framework.
GitHubJim HesterSoftware Engineer - Cleveland, OH
Jim is a software engineer at RStudio working with Hadley to build better tools for data science. He is the author of a number of R packages including
lintr and
covr, tools to provide code linting and test coverage for R.
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Fereshteh KarimeddiniSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA
Fereshteh is a software engineer with 20 years of experience at various established and startup companies in the Boston area. She has a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her experience is in ensuring product quality via manual, automated, load and performance testing.
GitHubTareef KawafPresident - Boston, MA
Tareef is a software startup executive and a member of teams that built up ATG’s eCommerce offering and
Brightcove’s Online Video Platform, helping both companies grow from early startups to publicly traded companies.
GitHubAndrew KippSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA
Andy is a software engineer that has worked at a number of startups.
GitHub Pete KnastEnterprise Advocate - San Diego, CA
Pete has been in sales since his undergrad days at both Suffolk and Temple. Whether recruiting, selling web ad-space or handling high tech accounts, he has prided himself on being an asset to his customers. The fascinating projects he encountered in the analytics market, both at Spotfire and Jaspersoft, led Pete to RStudio. During his career Pete has enjoyed working at a variety of companies; from his own start up to larger companies like TIBCO. Outside of providing customers with excellent service, Pete enjoys surfing and spending time with his family.
GitHubMax KuhnSoftware Engineer | Data Scientist - Waterford, CT
Max was a nonclinical statistician for 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry and for 6 years in the medical diagnostic industry. His degrees are in Biostatistics (Ph.D.) and Mathematics (B.S.). He has released several R packages for predictive modeling and machine learning, including
caret,
C50, and
Cubist. He is the author of the Springer book
Applied Predictive Modeling (with Kjell Johnson), which won the American Statistical Association’s Ziegel Award for best book in 2014.
Google Scholar GitHubSean LoppSolutions Engineer - Golden, CO
Sean has a degree in mathematics and statistics and worked as an analyst at the National Renewable Energy Lab before making the switch to customer success at RStudio. In his spare time he skis and mountain bikes and is a proud Colorado native.
Javier LuraschiSoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA
Javier is a Software Engineer with experience in technologies ranging from desktop, web, mobile and backend; to augmented reality and deep learning applications. He previously worked for Microsoft Research and SAP and holds a double degree in Mathematics and Software Engineering.
GitHubJonathan McPhersonSoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA
Jonathan is a software engineer on the RStudio IDE. In the past, he’s written Web applications at a nuclear site in the desert, exploratory information visualization systems at UC Davis, and features for flagship Office products and modern web applications at Microsoft.
GitHubCarmen NgController - Boston, MA
Carmen is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with an MBA and a degree in accounting. She has held various Accounting/Finance positions in high-tech and start-up companies over 20 years. Most recently, she worked for Harmonix Music System, a music game developer studio. In her spare time she helps in local schools and spends time with friends and family.
Steve NolenSite Reliability Engineer - Los Angeles, CA
Steve is a site reliability engineer at RStudio. He’s currently living in Los Angeles (after a number of years working at UCLA on a data science-based education project) but originally hails from the Philadelphia area. He holds a master’s degree in information security from Penn State University as well as bachelor’s degrees in both music and computer information systems from Westminster Choir College and Rider University.
GitHubRoger ObergVP Marketing - Austin, TX
Roger has been a general manager and vice president of sales, marketing, and engineering from early stage start-ups such as RStudio, Veracode, XVT and Requisite to Ping Identity, Spotfire, TIBCO, Rational, and IBM.
GitHubIan PylvainenSupport Engineer - Boston, MA
Ian is a support engineer that has worked in information technology and support for many years, including at Wellesley College and Wesleyan University.
GitHubJonathan Regenstein
Enterprise Advocate - Atlanta, GA
Jonathan worked in the the world of finance and did graduate work in political economy before joining RStudio. He has very little free time, but if he had more he would enjoy skiing, SCUBA diving, squash and tennis.
GitHubBárbara Borges Ribeiro
Software Engineer - Aveiro, Portugal
Bárbara is a software engineer working primarily in the Shiny package. She holds a double major in Statistics and Computer Science from Macalester College. After four freezing Minnesota winters, she is back in her warm homeland of Portugal (but to the disappointment of many, she’s not a soccer fan).
GitHubJoseph RickertR Community Ambassador - San Francisco, California
Joseph Rickert is RStudio’s “Ambassador at Large” for all things R. He works with the RStudio
team and the R Consortium to promote open source activities, the R language and the R Community.
Joseph represents RStudio on the R Consortium board of directors.
Joseph came to RStudio from Microsoft /Revolution Analytics where he was a data scientist, blog editor and special programs manager after having spent most of his career working for startups in various technical, marketing and sales positions. Joseph attended Franklin & Marshall college on a Classics scholarship and later earned an M.A. in Humanities and an M.S. in Statistics from the California State University. You can follow him on Twitter as @RStudioJoe. GitHub
Gary RitchieSoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA
Gary is a software engineer working on the RStudio IDE. During several years at Microsoft, he developed a variety of desktop, mobile and web features. Prior to that he built software for (much) smaller companies in the geophysical and medical fields. He enjoys hiking, coffee, and avoiding sunburns.
GitHubRobby ShaverVP Product Design - Boston, MA
Robby is a designer who’s helped create a variety of software products & services for organizations large and small including Noteflight, Adobe, Virtual Ubiquity, Maven Networks, IBM, Lotus & Learningways.
Edgar Ruiz
Solutions Engineer - Biloxi, Mississippi
Edgar has a background in deploying enterprise reporting and Business Intelligence solutions. He has posted multiple articles and blog posts sharing analytics insights and server infrastructure for Data Science. He lives with his family near Biloxi, MS
GitHubJoshua SpiewakSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA
Josh is a software craftsman with a passion for start ups and single malts. He has Computer Science degrees from Brown University. When not building software, Josh plays Magic with his sons and sails with his family in Narragansett Bay.
GitHubNathan StephensDirector of Solutions Engineering - Baltimore, MD
Nathan has a background in analytic solutions and consulting. He has experience building data science teams, architecting analytic infrastructure, and delivering innovative data products. He is a long time user of R.
Kevin UsheySoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA
Kevin is a software engineer at RStudio, and primarily works on the RStudio IDE. He is an active R user, a member of the Rcpp core team, and has contributed to a wide variety of packages in the R ecosystem. He is the maintainer of the ‘
packrat‘ package, which allows users to
manage their R package dependencies in an isolated, portable, and reproducible way.
GitHubClay WalkerWeb Developer - San Diego, CA
Clay has an Electrical and Computer Engineering background but his professional experience has been in developing single page web applications. He is a nomad, agricultural hobbyist, stargazer, and former homebrewer.
GitHubHadley WickhamChief Scientist - Houston, TX
Hadley is Chief Scientist at RStudio and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Rice University. He is interested in building better tools for data science. His work includes R packages for data analysis (
ggplot2,
plyr,
reshape2); packages that make R less frustrating (
lubridate for dates,
stringr for strings,
httr for accessing web APIs); and that make it easier to do good software development in R (
roxygen2,
testthat,
devtools,
lineprof,
staticdocs). He is also a writer, educator, and frequent contributor to conferences promoting more accessible and more effective data analysis.
GitHubYihui XieSoftware Engineer - Omaha, NE
Yihui Xie got his PhD from the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. He is interested in interactive statistical graphics, statistical computing, and web applications. He is an active R user and the author of several R packages, such as
animation,
formatR,
Rd2roxygen, and
knitr, among which the animation package won the 2009 John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award (ASA). He is also the author of the books
“Dynamic Documents with R and knitr” and
“bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown”. In 2006 he founded the
“Capital of Statistics”, which has grown into a large online community on statistics in China. He initiated the first Chinese R conference in 2008 and has been organizing R conferences in China since then. During his PhD training at the Iowa State University, he won the Vince Sposito Statistical Computing Award (2011) and the Snedecor Award (2012) in the Department of Statistics.
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Weibo Jon YoderSoftware Engineer - Blacksburg, VA
Jon loves full-stack software development. He has recently written software for data virtualization (Cisco) and bioinformatics research (where he first worked with R). Jon resides in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, and enjoys his family, animals, nature, and mountain biking.
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