He is a co-founder[2] of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity in the United States, and sits on its advisory board.
In addition, Oliphant is the primary creator of NumPy and founding contributor to the SciPy packages in the Python programming language.
[1][5] Oliphant was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University from 2001 to 2007.
[9] Continuum Analytics received a $100,000 award from DARPA for the feasibility of designing a high-level data-parallel language extension to Python on graphics processing units (GPUs).
[10] On April 1, 2017, Oliphant announced he was leaving Anaconda Inc. and stepping down from the CEO position[11] He subsequently co-founded Quansight later that same year.