Technical director, software engineer, data scientist, bestselling author, competent communicator and strong generalist. Enthusiastic about well-designed software, clean code, teaching and mentoring, generating value from data, AI / ML / NLP / whatever and functional programming. Joel is a software engineer, data scientist, and best-selling author. He works for a large financial services company where he leads a small team that creates data and ML products.

Previously, he did research and development at the Allen Institute for Articial Intelligence in Seattle, where he worked on the AllenNLP project.

Before that, he developed software at Google and carried out data science at various startups.

You can email him at joelgrus-at-gmail or follow him on Twitter @joelgrus.