[1][2] He's also the creator of Apache Arrow, a cross-language development platform for in-memory data, and Ibis, a unified Python dataframe API.
[6] From 2007 to 2010, McKinney researched global macro and credit trading strategies at AQR Capital Management.
He went on leave from Duke in the summer of 2011 to devote more time to developing Pandas,[6] culminating in the writing of Python for Data Analysis in 2012.
Datapad developed a data visualization product also on the Python stack targeting enterprise customers.
He worked on an open-source project called Ibis, incubated within Cloudera Labs, aiming at using Python for big data problems.