Nathan Paco

URL: https://derwen.ai/paco

Known as a "player/coach", with core expertise in data science, natural language processing, machine learning, cloud computing; 35+ years tech industry experience, ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups. Co-chair JupyterCon, host of Executive Briefings at The AI Conf and Strata Data. Advisor for Amplify Partners, Deep Learning Analytics, Recognai. Recent roles: Director, Learning Group @ O'Reilly Media; Director, Community Evangelism @ Databricks and Apache Spark. Cited in 2015 as one of the Top 30 People in Big Data and Analytics by Innovation Enterprise.

Formerly a contributing editor for bOING-bOING magazine, also formerly a writer for Mondo 2000, Wired, etc. Co-founder of FringeWare, and former editor of FringeWare Review. We launched a very early e-commerce web site (late 1992) as one of the first online bookstores, plus a popular bookstore in Austin based on subculture titles ("long tail")... That became a hub for weekly salons and performance art shows, including SRL, Robert Anton Wilson, Church of the SubGenius, and much more oddness.

"One of the cornerstones of Modern Mass Weirdness in the late 20th Century" - Ivan Stang.