James is an engineer at Saturn Cloud, where he works on a managed Dask + Kubernetes offering and contributes to open source projects in the Dask ecosystem, such as Prefect. Before that, he spent 4 years as a data scientist working on industrial internet of things (IIoT) problems at AWS and Chicago-based Uptake. He is a maintainer on LightGBM, a popular machine learning project from Microsoft Research, and on 2 R packages on CRAN and 1 Python package on PyPi. James holds masters degrees in Applied Economics and in Data Science.