# Matthew Rocklin

> Matthew Rocklin is the creator of Dask, the open-source library that lets ordinary Python scale across thousands of machines, and the co-founder and CEO of Coiled, a New York-based startup that turns that capability into a cloud product. A physicist-turned-computer-scientist, he spent years inside Anaconda and NVIDIA building the plumbing of the scientific Python world before raising venture money to make planetary-scale data processing feel as simple as importing a library. His software runs at NASA, Capital One, and the US Air Force; his blog reads like a field journal of open-source maintenance, startup life, and walking across Spain.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Coiled Computing
- **Organizations:** Coiled Computing, Dask, NVIDIA, Anaconda (Continuum Analytics)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA in Physics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, PhD in Computer Science, University of Chicago
- **Known for:** Created Dask, a foundational library for parallel and distributed computing in Python., Built and led the Dask engineering team at NVIDIA for the RAPIDS GPU project., Co-founded and leads Coiled, raising roughly $26M in total funding.

## Career timeline

- **2014** — Creates Dask while at Continuum Analytics (now Anaconda) to parallelize NumPy and Pandas.
- **2018** — Joins NVIDIA to build the Dask team behind RAPIDS, bringing GPU acceleration to the Python data stack.
- **2020** — Co-founds Coiled Computing and becomes CEO, focused on making Dask easy for large organizations in the cloud.
- **2021** — Coiled raises a $21M Series A; keynotes the Dask Distributed Summit.
- **2024** — Coiled publishes public TPC-H benchmarks comparing Spark, Dask, DuckDB and Polars at scale.

## Achievements

- Created Dask, a foundational library for parallel and distributed computing in Python.
- Built and led the Dask engineering team at NVIDIA for the RAPIDS GPU project.
- Co-founded and leads Coiled, raising roughly $26M in total funding.
- Major contributor to scientific Python projects including toolz, SymPy, and Theano.
- His software underpins data workloads at NASA, Capital One, Anthem Health, and the US Air Force.

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Shared a 'Coiled 2024 in Review' retrospective covering the company's year.
- **2024-01** — Coiled published TPC-H benchmarks pitting Dask against Spark, DuckDB, and Polars at scale.

## Links

- Website: https://matthewrocklin.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrocklin/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mrocklin
- GitHub: https://github.com/mrocklin
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEbJk8i1DRw

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