# Travis Oliphant

> Travis E. Oliphant is an American software developer, scientist and entrepreneur who created NumPy, co-created SciPy and started Numba. He co-founded Anaconda with Peter Wang, helped establish NumFOCUS and PyData, and founded Quansight. As CEO and co-founder of OpenTeams, he now works on enterprise AI built around open technologies and organizational ownership.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at OpenTeams
- **Organizations:** OpenTeams, Anaconda, Quansight, NumFOCUS, PyData, Enthought, Brigham Young University, Open Technology Incubator
- **From:** Salt Lake City, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. degrees in mathematics and electrical and computer engineering; M.S. in electrical and computer engineering, Brigham Young University, Ph.D., Mayo Graduate School
- **Known for:** Primary creator of NumPy., Co-creator and founding contributor of SciPy., Creator of the Numba project.

## Career timeline

- **1997** — Began working with Python for numerical and scientific programming.
- **1999** — Released Multipack, an early precursor to SciPy.
- **2001** — Helped create SciPy; began teaching electrical and computer engineering at Brigham Young University.
- **2005–2006** — Created NumPy, bringing together capabilities of Numeric and numarray; wrote Guide to NumPy.
- **2007–2011** — Served as president of Enthought.
- **2012** — Co-founded Continuum Analytics, later Anaconda, with Peter Wang; helped establish NumFOCUS and PyData; started Numba.
- **2018** — Publicly introduced his new chapter at Quansight in a March blog post.
- **2019** — Co-founded OpenTeams.
- **2026** — Became OpenTeams CEO in March; announced a return to Utah in June.

## Achievements

- Primary creator of NumPy.
- Co-creator and founding contributor of SciPy.
- Creator of the Numba project.
- Co-founder and founding CEO of Anaconda, originally Continuum Analytics.
- Founding board member of NumFOCUS and an organizing influence behind PyData.
- Author of Guide to NumPy.
- Founder of Quansight and co-founder of OpenTeams.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — OpenTeams promoted the freely available conversation between Oliphant and Catherine Austin Fitts about AI ownership.
- **2026-06** — Published What Texas Gave Open Source, announcing that he and his wife were relocating back to Utah after nineteen years in Texas.
- **2026-03** — OpenTeams announced that Oliphant would succeed Joe Merrill as CEO, with the next phase centered on Nebari product development.
- **2025-08** — Featured in CultRepo’s mini-documentary The early days of scientific Python and appeared on The Real Python Podcast.

## Links

- Website: https://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teoliphant
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/teoliphant
- GitHub: https://github.com/teoliphant

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Last updated: 2026-10-26