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 British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and across Europe!
Ferit AlbukrekVP, Engineering - Boston, MA
Ferit is a software engineer and leader focused on developing and scaling teams. He brings a broad array experiences from Boston area product startups, IT organizations and digital consultancies such as Maxwell Health, Brightcove, Harvard University and Razorfish. Outside of work he is very focused on learning to be a great parent, and the little free time that’s left goes to cooking, singing and exercise. He holds a software engineering degree from University of Pennsylvania.
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.
GitHubRicardo AndradeSoftware Engineer
Ricardo started his career with hardware and then moved on databases which made him unusually fond of both low-level stuff and SQL. He spent the next 10 years between automotive and financial industries working mostly on backend services for B2B applications running both on the desktop and on the web. Before joining RStudio he worked a few years on enterprise-grade security software what made made him very wary of hackers. Ricardo is originally from Brazil but terrible at soccer and while not coding he likes spending time with his family, cooking, playing Nintendo games and following closely the C++ community.
GitHub Cole ArendtSolutions Engineer - Raleigh, NC
Cole is a solutions engineer and has a background in mathematics and big data. He has architected and managed analytic frameworks for reporting that use R, SAS, and Tableau. He has a diverse set of skills and interests that include soccer, philosophy, economics, and open source software. Cole lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife and two young children.
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.
GitHubMara AverickTidyverse Developer Advocate - Boston, MA
Mara (better known as @dataandme) is our tidyverse developer advocate. She got into R by way of a long-time obsession with the NBA and (fantasy) basketball. When not catering to the every whim of her dogs, she can be found: hunting down weird words; indulging her bibliomania; and/or quantifying, visualizing, and watching
Archer.
GitHubBecky BajanPeople Operations Partner - Richmond, VA
Becky has a background in Human Resources and has spent the last 10 plus years at Boston based start ups. At RStudio she enjoys working closely with a talented, curious, and thoughtful team to create a seamless and enjoyable hiring, onboarding, and ongoing employee experience. She can’t help but solve a problem and loves to find the right person or tool for the job. In her free time she likes to complete small projects around the house and nurture her three young daughters.
James BlairSolutions Engineer - Herriman, UT
James holds a master’s degree in data science from the University of the Pacific and works as a
solutions engineer. His past consulting work centered around helping businesses derive insight from data assets by leveraging R. Outside of R and data science,
James’s interests include spending time with his wife and daughters, cooking, camping, cycling, racquetball, and exquisite food. Also, he never turns down a funnel cake.
GitHub Ming BeckwithSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA
Ming is a software engineer with previous experience at large biotech and higher education companies. She has worked on various projects from user interfaces to distributed databases and has a fondness for big data and little dogs.
GitHubRobert BethellMarketing - Boston, MA
Robert is a member of our marketing team. His background is in digital marketing and marketing-automation. Robert is a big NBA fan (especially the 76ers) and likes electronic music and art-house films. In his spare time, he takes trips to Cape May, NJ and is active in the Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia community in Boston/Philadelphia.
Ron 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.
GitHubShawn BurkeVP, Finance - Boston, MA
Shawn is an Accounting and Finance veteran with over 20 years of experience working with start up and publicly traded companies. He enjoys working with people and data to help companies drive growth. He lives in Boston, MA with his wife and son. When not working, you can find him coaching his son’s sports teams or boating.
Nathan CaliesTechnical Support Engineer - Golden, CO
Nathan joins us as a member of the support team and is eager to help our customers succeed. He has been in the industry for many years and has had the opportunity to build and lead a support organization from the ground up. He was also a part of the AWS acquisition of Elemental Technologies. Nathan loves living in Colorado and spends his free time mountain biking and rock climbing.
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.
GitHubLauren ChadwickCustomer Success Representative - Atlanta, GA
Lauren is a Customer Success Representative with a focus in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry. She has a background in Supply Chain Management & Information Systems and has experience IT Consulting for large healthcare companies – focusing on business transformation, technology implementation, process improvement, & requirements management. In her free time, Lauren loves traveling, watching baseball (go Indians!), and spending time with her family and friends.
Winston 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’.
Richard ChenQA Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA
Richard is a QA Automation Engineer with experience in cybersecurity and e-commerce. He is an avid outdoors person and dog lover and is often exploring new places with his Rottweiler and black lab.
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.
Emily CrisanSupport Engineer - Columbus, OH
Emily is part of the support team. She has experience using data in engineering, quality and training in the baking industry with a focus on translating technical speak into human terms. She lives with her family of five in Columbus, OH.
Adam ConroySoftware Engineer - Boston, MA
Adam has experience as an engineer across a wide variety of roles and industries from writing specs for nuclear submarine surfacing systems to architecting the map loading software in large scale video games. He is excited to bring his passion for intuitive user experience to the RStudio IDE team.
Gábor CsárdiSoftware Engineering - Oxford, UK
Gábor is a software engineer at RStudio, working in Hadley’s team on R infrastructure packages.
GitHub 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.
Rachael DempseyEnterprise Advocate - Boston, MA
Rachael has a background in operations and sales. Originally from CT, she has lived in Boston for 7 years. Growing up in a family restaurant/bar, she has always wanted to work directly with customers and do all she can to make people happy. Her interest in analytics and affinity for networking led Rachael to RStudio. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, being outdoors, playing guitar, and meeting new people.
Dewey DunningtonIntern, ggplot2
Dewey is a lakes researcher who enjoys building tools for data science. When he is not researching lakes or writing code, he can be found playing stringed instruments or walking in the woods. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Centre for Water Resources Studies (
http://waterstudies.ca/) at Dalhousie University.
GitHub Hadrien DykielCustomer Success - Boston, MA
Hadrien is an avid adventurer who grew up training horses. He now continues to ride on weekends along with trail running and working towards his private pilot’s license. He fell in love with data science and R after college and has worked in various industries including tech and insurance. He is now a member of the customer success team at RStudio.
Mark EngelnEnterprise Advocate - Santa Ana, CA
Mark is a member of the enterprise sales team at RStudio. Previously, he was engaged in basic and applied cancer research at USC Medical Center, during which he was a heavy R user.
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.
GitHubTonya FilzCustomer Success - Indianapolis, IN
Tonya is a psychology nerd who fell in love with R during her graduate training in clinical psychology. Since joining RStudio in 2017, she has been using her experience in research, teaching, and statistics to help customers become as successful as possible using RStudio’s toolchain. When she’s away from her computer, you will often find her doing yoga, cooking, running, or cuddling with her two beloved cats.
GitHubJosh ForestSite Reliability Engineer - Portland, ME
Josh is a Site Reliability Engineer from Portland Maine. He is from Cumberland Maine originally, but lived and worked in the greater Boston area for 10 years before finding his way back home again. He is an avid traveller with a heavy focus on Italy. He’s been practicing Italian for a few years now, but it still admittedly very intermediate at it. He has a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Github Amanda GadrowDirector of QA and Support - Columbus, 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.
GitHubSaudia GanieTechnical Recruiting Lead - Plainfield, NJ
Saudia is a Technical Recruiting Lead with years of experience finding great talent. Prior to joining RStudio she worked at DigitalOcean and Audible where she did tech recruiting and ran diversity and inclusion programs. Outside of work she paints, read books (mostly fiction), and scavenge the house for socks that her puppy steals and hides from her.
Alex GoldSolutions Engineer
Alex is a longtime data nerd who worked on economic policy research, electoral politics, and healthcare at various times. He enjoys cooking and practicing martial arts and handstands in his spare time.
GitHubMel GregorySoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA
Mel is a software engineer and has been for a while. She likes simplicity.
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 Kevin HankensSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA
Kevin is a software engineer with a focus on continuous integration and quality automation. He lives in historic Salem, MA with with his wife and son.
GitHubKevin HaydenMajor Accounts - Boston, MA
Kevin has worn many hats over his sales career. For the last four and a half years, he worked for a data analytics start up in the education space. Kevin loves building deep relationships and thrives on helping his clients solve problems and meet strategic goals. Kevin lives on the north shore of Boston with his wife and two young kids. When not chasing his kids around, he loves cooking, exploring the craft beer scene and tries his best to stay active with boxing and Brazilian jiu-jitsu training.
Jen HechtVP, People Operations - Boston, MA
Jen is an HR and People Analytics veteran who was first introduced to RStudio as a user in 2013. Ever since, she has been captivated by open data science tools and the communities that build them. She has held HR roles in a variety of industries, including financial services, biotech, and used record shops. Outside of work, Jen loves books of all kinds, and is a novice fly caster.
Max HeldTidyverse Team - Nuremberg, Germany
Max is a political sociologist, aspiring data scientist and general unsupervised learner. He caught the open source bug during his graduate studies, and still gets a thrill out of building a small thing that might save another human being some time. He is
teaching and
developing tools for open and reproducible data science.
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.
Jim 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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Alison HillData Scientist and Professional Educator
Alison is a Data Scientist & Professional Educator at RStudio. She has used R both in the classroom as a professor, and in the lab as a scientist and mentor. She specializes in teaching data science to new and advanced R users, and helping data scientists adopt literate programming tools to document and communicate their work. She is one of the authors of the book “blogdown: Making Websites with R Markdown”. Previously, she was an Associate Professor and Assistant Director of a computational research center at Oregon Health & Science University. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, and Autism Speaks. Alison holds a Ph.D. in psychology and quantitative methods from Vanderbilt University (2008) and an undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech (2002).
Github. Kaitlyn HorwitzActing Business Manager - Nashville, TN
Kaitlyn is all about creating, supporting and inspiring! She has focused her career on event planning, executive assistant work and people ops, specifically on-boarding and employee satisfaction.
Carl HoweDirector of Education - Boston, MA
Carl has experience as an analyst, educator, and computer scientist. R has been
Carl‘s go-to platform for market research data science since 2002, and he spent the last three years teaching companies around the world how to analyze big data using Hadoop.
Carl moved to the Boston area to study computer science at MIT in the previous millennium and still resides in the suburbs with his wife and two grown sons. He is also an enthusiastic classical singer, cat servant—cats don’t have owners, they have staff—and aviation geek.
GitHub David HurstBusiness Development Director - San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Dave has held a diverse number of roles in both large enterprises and small startups, applying emerging technologies to business problems. He was most recently at Seagate where he served as a Data Scientist and Business Analyst. Dave lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works with business partners to insure their success with RStudio products.
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Rich IannoneSoftware Engineer - Toronto, Canada
Rich is a software engineer that enjoys working with R. He likes to create R packages that help people to accomplish things. While Rich very clearly digs R, he enjoys other things as well! Examples include: playing and listening to music, reading books, watching films, meeting up with friends, and wandering through the many valleys and ravines of the Greater Toronto Area.
GitHubScott JacksonSoftware Engineer - Philadelphia, PA
Scott Jackson is a software engineer and individual contributor to RStudio Connect. Prior to re-entering software engineering,
Scott worked as a patent attorney focused on software-related patents.
Scott‘s experience includes contributions to the SciPy stack, data engineering infrastructure for enterprises, and full-stack web development.
Scott‘s hobbies include coffee roasting, Kerbal Space Program, and tearing down electronics.
Scott is a co-organizer for
PhillyR, a Philadelphia-area R meetup.
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Tareef 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.
GitHubSigrid KeydanaApplied Researcher - Munich, Germany
Sigrid has experience as a psychologist, software developer and data scientist. She is passionate about exploring the frontiers of deep learning and especially helping users employ the power of deep learning from R. When she’s not tuning neural networks she loves doing outdoor sports- among her favorites are cycling, mountain biking and cross country skiing.
GitHubAndrew KippSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA
Andy is a software engineer that has worked at a number of startups.
GitHub Derrick KearneySoftware Engineer - Lafayette, Indiana
Derrick is a software developer with a focus on using Open Source technologies to build environments that contribute to scientific research. Over the years, he has embedded himself within research groups at institutions around the United States, working closely with over two dozen teams to understand their needs and implement software solutions that allowed them to work more effectively. He has a special place in his heart for software that works as intended, and now spends significant portions of time building systems that reduce the barriers that make software testing the uninvited friend at the development cycle party.
GitHubCurtis KephartCommunity Organizer | Data Scientist - Portland, OR
Curtis was recently an academic economist researching online communities and markets, conducting behavioral and market-structure experiments. Today, he is a part of RStudio’s efforts to support the
R and open-source data-science community of users, developers, consultants, and trainers.
GitHubEmily Kim is a rising senior at Smith College studying computer science. In the past, she has worked on projects with maintenance management systems and worked with pre-released Amazon and Microsoft products.
Emily also served on the Smithies in Computer Science board as an event chair and loves supporting women in STEM. In her free time, she loves to go on food adventures with her friends. She is very excited to be joining the RStudio package manager team for this summer!
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.
GitHubStephen KressSoftware Engineer - Double Oak, TX
Stephen is an engineer who has built software for software & IT, electric utilities, SDLC toolchains, and mobile security while working for startups and larger companies. He’s done everything from UI/UX work to hard core server and processing work on everything from mainframes down to embedded devices. He acquired 5 patents for his work in bringing virtualization concepts to a marketable product.
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 GitHubKevin KuoSoftware Engineer - Kirkland, WA
Kevin is a software engineer working on open source packages for big data analytics and machine learning. He has held data science positions in a variety of industries and was a credentialed actuary. He likes mixing cocktails and studying about wine.
GitHubMatt LandsSoftware Engineer - Burbank, CA
Matt has a professional background in both software and audio engineering. His focus has been in developing single page web applications. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with family, hiking, road trips and playing multiple musical instruments.
GitHubJeremy LangVP Customer Success - Boston, MA
Jeremy studied computer science at Columbia, and worked as a software engineer before moving into business with positions as general manager, VP, and Managing Director at Elysium Digital, Stroz Friedberg, Aon, and the legal-technology startup Shoobx. Jeremy lives with his family outside Boston, and is an avid cyclist and a freelance classical musician.
Brenna LekerSoftware Engineer - Falls Church, VA
Brenna is a software engineer on the Connect team. She has experience working on permissions management tooling, building a new AWS service and teaching high school Spanish. In her free time Brenna enjoys hiking, baking, gaming, roller derby and making hard cider.
GitHubGreg LinSoftware Engineer - Houston, TX
Greg is a software engineer on the Package Manager
team. Before joining, he worked on server management software at HPE, and studied computer science at Rice University. He lives in Houston, where he gets to enjoy an incredible diversity of foods and fine weather.
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.
GitHubMichael MarchettiSoftware Engineer, Connect - Rochester, NY
Mike is a software engineer on the RStudio Connect team and has experience creating data science tools in startup and enterprise environments. He holds degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Rochester. In addition to being an engineer, he has held roles as a product owner, project manager, software architect, and engineering manager. In his spare time, Mike enjoys spending time with his family and coaching FIRST Robotics.
GitHub Richard McCombieTechnical Support Engineer
Richard grew up in the South East of England, and moved to Wales in late 2017. He cut his teeth as a junior sysadmin, progressing through the ranks to senior sysadmin, before moving into the DevOps field. As a DevOps Engineer, he spent most of his time working with Amazon’s AWS, automating infrastructure build out and code deployment, and putting in place security and networking configurations. In his spare time, Richard likes to climb, hike, roast/brew/drink coffee, walk his dogs and, last but not least, ferment! He enjoys making water kefir, milk kefir, kombucha, and sourdough bread.
Jonathan 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.
GitHubKaren MedinaSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA
Karen joined RStudio as a Software Engineer Apprentice, after having recently graduated from the Resilient Coders bootcamp. She enjoys being hands-on and appreciates a challenge.
Karen is a native Spanish speaker with a background in the social sciences. When she’s not coding, you can find her writing, hiking, or reading up on interesting places to explore.
GitHub Thomas MockCustomer Success - Dallas, TX
Thomas holds a PhD in Neurobiology from the UNT Health Science Center and works as a Customer Success Representative. He fell in love with R and data science through his graduate research, using R and RStudio to wrangle, analyze, model, and visualize his data. He is passionate about growing the R community, and founded
#TidyTuesday to help newcomers and seasoned vets improve their Tidyverse skills. In his home town of Dallas, Thomas and his wife run on the local trails, play with their Boston Terrier “Howard”, spend lots of time with their five nephews and families, and are always on the lookout for great new food, especially churros.
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.
Toni Noble QA Engineer - Boston, MA
Toni has many years of experience in breaking software across several different sectors including cybersecurity, financial, mobile, and more. In her spare times she wears many hats as she deejays, creates things of all varieties, cooks, dabbles in photography, and throws electronic music events.
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.
GitHubKristopher OverholtSolutions Engineer - Austin, TX
Kris is a solutions engineer and holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has experience working with R, Python, Spark, DevOps, and enterprise data science platforms. He enjoys empowering our customers with scalable data science workflows and tooling. He lives near Austin, TX with his wife and two children, enjoys BBQing and exploring the outdoors, and is a proud Texan.
GitHubThomas Lin PedersenSoftware Engineer - Denmark
Thomas is a bioinformatician who enjoys building tools that help bring scientists closer to their data. His main focus is in visualisation and network analysis and has released several packages in that area. He enjoys photography as well as creating generative art and tries to find time to do some climbing as well.
Thomas lives just north of Copenhagen, Denmark.
GitHub Ian 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.
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.
GitHubIngrid RodriguezSoftware Engineer - Doral, FL
Ingrid is a software engineer on the Connect team. She has experience working in the financial industry, satellite communications and even her own startup. She enjoys developing intuitive and mobile-friendly web applications that improve the overall user experience . She holds a degree in computer science from Florida International University. Ingrid loves the warm weather and likes to spend her free time in the water scuba diving, kayaking, snorkeling, jet skiing and parasailing.
GitHubNick RohrbaughCustomer Success - Harrisburg, PA
Nick helps customers make the most of RStudio’s products. His background is in cognitive psychology, where he first developed his love for all things RStudio. Before joining RStudio, he worked to improve geopolitical forecasting with Good Judgment. In his spare time, Nick’s an avid NBA follower and fan of the 76ers.
GitHub 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.
GitHubTony SantosDesign Technologist - Seattle, WA
Tony is an HCI expert who has lead design at Mozilla, T-Mobile, and a handful of startups as well as working as a designer and web developer at multiple tech companies and design studios. Much of his career has focused on making tools for: software development, publishing, ad-tech, fintech, sales and customer service, and HR. He holds a M.S. in Human Centered Design and Engineering from the University of Washington and a B.F.A in Advertising and Graphic Design from the Columbus College of Art & Design, and has taught interaction design at institutions including San Francisco State University. When not working, he balances his love of playing and making games with going outside and enjoying the beautiful Pacific Northwest in the 6 weeks a year that it’s not damp.
GitHubMaria SempleSoftware Engineer - BC, Canada
Maria is a software engineer who has experience developing database drivers and a Client/Server architecture for database drivers. She joined RStudio in 2018 as a member of the RStudio IDE team.
Robby 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.
Carson SievertSoftware Engineer - Minneapolis, MN
Carson brings a PhD in statistics to his engineering role with the goal of delivering better data visualization and statistical computing tools to scientists and analysts. His work on the R package
plotly for interactive data visualization was recognized by the
ASA with the 2017
Chambers Award. Before joining RStudio in late 2018,
Carson ran a consulting business delivering data-driven software products and training services to organizations such as the Library of Congress, NOAA, Sandia National Labs, and TCB Analytics.
GitHub Swati SinhaQA Engineer - Fremont, CA
Swati has vast experience working as QA Automation Engineer for IoT Security and Digital Marketing company. When not testing,
Swati enjoys traveling, hiking and watching movie with family and friends.
GitHub Brian SmithSoftware Engineer - San Diego, CA
Brian is a software engineer and entrepreneur with a background in Math and Computer Science. The rare moments when not coding or reading are usually occupied by beer, food, or travel (occasionally all three at once).
GitHub Joshua 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.
Shalu TiwariQuality Engineer - Boston, MA
Shalu is a quality assurance engineer on the shiny team. She holds a Bachelor of engineering in Electrical engineering. She has worked in a previous startup company where she built a QA team and created testing processes and strategies.
Samantha ToetPartner Marketing - Charlottesville, VA
Samantha is a Virginia native with a background in social psychology and statistics. She’s passionate about making data literacy more accessible for everyone, regardless of their means or background. When she’s not using R to analyze hip hop, she’s rewriting nasty math equations in Latex, organizing R-Ladies meetups, or getting her hands dirty in her vegetable garden. She lives with her partner, Nathan, and two big, stinky dogs.
GitHub 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.
GitHubDavis VaughanSoftware Engineer - Huntersville, NC
Davis is a software engineer working on modeling in the tidyverse. He holds a degree in Mathematical Finance (M.S.) and is the co-author of a number of R packages including furrr for parallelizing purrr code. Outside of R, his hobbies include reading and hiking.
GitHub Ann VermeerschAccountant - St Clair Shores, MI
Ann joins us as an Accounts Receivable/Staff Accountant in the finance team. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and has experience in the Pharmaceutical & Video Game industry. Ann resides in Michigan and grew up dancing; even pursued it as her career in NYC at one point. In her spare time she enjoys teaching dance, spending time with her family, and spoiling her dog, Kona.
Andrie de VriesSolutions Engineer - London, United Kingdom
Andrie started using R in 2009 for market research statistics. He is a regular contributor to StackOverflow and co-author of “R for Dummies”. He contributed several R packages to CRAN, including
miniCRAN, checkpoint, ggdendro, sss, and surveydata, and regularly speaks at industry events and R user groups. He is a qualified yoga teacher, and continues to study yoga therapy annually in Chennai, India.
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.
GitHubGreg WilsonData Scientist and Professional Educator - Ontario, Canada
Greg Wilson has been a programmer, a teacher, and an author, and is now combining all three roles as a data scientist and professional educator at RStudio. He was the co-founder of Software Carpentry, a non-profit organization that teaches basic computing skills to researchers, and co-editor of “Beautiful Code”, “Making Software”, and “The Architecture of Open Source Applications”. In his spare time, he writes children’s books and is learning to play the cello.
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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