Wes McKinney

We have had our heads down building and working toward launching Kenn Software’s product offerings later this year, but in the meantime, I wanted to give some insight into how our agentic engineering process and culture have evolved since the beginning of…

Getting coding agents (we say “clankers”: “agents” gives them too much credit) to behave in a reasonable manner is a full time job even with the latest frontier models.

Like a lot of people, I’ve found that AI is terrible for my sleep schedule.

I’m thrilled to announce msgvault, a new side project I have been building over the last two months with the assistance of many coding agents and some new agentic engineering tools I created (like roborev, a continuous agentic code review system).

I have been building a lot of new software in Go.

We are officially now in the era of “why not?”.

This text of this post was written without AI assistance or editing.

Summary TL;DR I am joining Posit today as a Principal Architect where I will advocate for the needs of the PyData ecosystem in Posit’s work as well as continue advancing critical open source initiatives to accelerate progress in the polyglot “Data Science…

Summary TL;DR I am transitioning out of my full-time CTO role at Voltron Data so that I can expand my portfolio of entrepreneurial and open source data projects.

A new joint VLDB paper on Composable Data Management Systems with Meta, Databricks, Sundeck, and others at is out!

Joint Post from Wes McKinney and Josh Patterson Allow us to reintroduce ourselves Too often people say “let’s do something together” in passing, and don’t.

The first quarter of 2019 has now wrapped up.

The team had a busy 28 days this February.

Ursa Labs had a busy January that went by too quickly.

For ten out of the last eleven years, I’ve lived in two places: New York City and San Francisco.

I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA AI Labs has signed on as a supporter of Ursa Labs.

Funding open source software development is a complicated subject.

Well-known database systems researcher Daniel Abadi published a blog post yesterday asking Apache Arrow vs.

Earlier this year, development for the Feather file format moved to the Apache Arrow codebase.

This post is the first of many to come on Apache Arrow, pandas, pandas2, and the general trajectory of my work in recent times and into the foreseeable future.