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.
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.
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.
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 - Boston, MA
Becky has a background in Human Resources and has spent the last 10 years working with Boston based start ups. While at work, she enjoys creating positive candidate and employee experiences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GitHubMel GregorySoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA
Mel is a software engineer and has been for a while. She likes simplicity.
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 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.
GitHubJen 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.
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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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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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 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 - Abu Dhabi, UAE
Curtis was recently an academic economist and has a passion for online communities and behavioral economics. He has over 7 years experience working with and teaching R.
GitHubPete 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 4 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 GitHubBrenna 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
GitHubAnn 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.
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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