Dirk Eddelbuettel is a Canadian statistician, data scientist and researcher.
He is also a co-creator of the Rocker Project bringing Docker to R. Eddelbuettel has an M.Sc in Industrial Engineering (Comp.Sci./OR) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.
and a PhD in Financial Econometrics from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in France.
[5] He is also the Debian/Ubuntu maintainer for R and other quantitative software, editor of the CRAN Task Views for Finance and High-Performance Computing, co-founder of the annual R/Finance conference, and an editor of the Journal of Statistical Software.
He works as an adjunct Clinical Professor in Statistics where he created and teaches STAT 447: Data Science Programming Methods.