About me
Hi 👋 Who am I?
I am a Director of Product at
Anaconda, where I lead development of the
Core Distribution enterprise and open-source products. I’m also a cognitive scientist with a Ph.D. in psychology, 1/3 of the
I use this website to share about projects I am working on, and to write reflections about crafting kind tech tools.
palmerpenguins
team, a data scientist, an expert in data science education, and a mediocre website developer (I built this website and open-sourced my Hugo theme <3).
I use this website to share about projects I am working on, and to write reflections about crafting kind tech tools.
Projects
The Composable Codex

The Composable Codex is a 5-part guide to building composable data systems layer by layer with open standards like Apache Arrow.
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Crafting Kind Tools

Whenever you use software, you are also using a tool that was crafted by someone else. Is it kind? Does it matter? What makes a tool kind?
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Alison Hill
Data Science + Product
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