Gergely Daróczi

Former assistant professor and occasional lecturer in R, statistics/data analysis and data engineering; recovering social scientist with an unfinished Philosophy MA; PhD in Sociology but more of a dataops person; cloud native and a fan of automation; author and maintainer of a dozen of R and Python packages, scientific journal articles and a book; passionate open-source developer and advocate; founder of the Hungarian R User Group (1800 members) and a reporting SaaS at rapporter.net; organized the first satRday (200 attendees) and the second eRum (500 attendees for 3 days) conferences; casual data science and data engineering freelancer/consultant; previously managed data operations for data science at CARD.com and at System1, then co-founded and led the tech team working for better health outcomes at Rx Studio; and most recently running an open-source Python ecosystem on steroids for data-driven cloud cost-efficiency at Spare Cores; have been working on the West Coast since 2015 – but living in a small village of Hungary; open source enthusiast; husband; father of four.