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Hi 👋

I’m Neal, an engineering leader focused on building software that helps people work with data. As a leader, I’ve managed small teams, scaled them up gradually to larger organizations, and navigated startup hypergrowth. I enjoy growing happy, high-performing teams, mentoring new leaders, and generally creating the conditions to ship great products.

I am passionate about open source. It’s a great way to do work that has a broad impact, and I find that fostering inclusive, sustainable developer communities–while hard work–is a source of joy. I’m a member of the Apache Arrow Project Management Committee (PMC) and for several years maintained the arrow R package. I maintain a handful of other R packages and, for better or worse, am not afraid to mangle code in other languages, too.

Standard disclaimer: posts here do not reflect the opinions of any employer or other group I am associated with, and any resemblence to particular individuals or entities is coincidental unless explicitly stated otherwise. I’m just an organic language model hallucinating a stream of words in response to a given topic.

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