Ritchie Vink
Ritchie Vink is the Author of the Polars DataFrame library. Originally he has a background in Civil Engineering, but he soon made the switch to Data/Software development. He has worked as a Machine Learning Engineer and a Software Engineer for 5 years, before he spent all of his time to Polars project. Those years have been filled with side projects to feed his curiosity. In present times he is the CEO of the newly started Polars Inc.
Sessions
Polars is an OLAP query engine that focusses on the DataFrame use case. Machines have changed a lot in the last decade and Polars is a query engine that is written from scratch in Rust to benefit from the modern hardware.
Effective parallelism, cache efficient data structures and algorithms are ingrained in its design. Thanks to those efforts Polars is among the fastest single node OSS query engines out there. Another goal of polars is rethinking the way DataFrame's should be interacted with. Polars comes with a very declarative and versatile API that enables users to write readable. This talk will focus on how Polars can be used and what you gain from using it idiomatically.