Title
Scientific Software Developer
Company
Enthought
Bio
Kurt has been using Python in scientific computing for nearly ten years, and has developed tools to simplify the integration of performance-oriented languages with Python. He has contributed to the Cython project, implementing the initial version of typed memoryviews and native cython arrays. He uses Cython extensively in his consulting work at Enthought. Throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies he used Python and Cython at every opportunity. Cython was particularly useful when developing high-performance parallel simulations of plasma turbulence for his doctoral research. Dr. Smith recently authored a book on Cython with O'Reilly and he has also trained hundreds of scientists, engineers, and researchers in Python, NumPy, Cython, and parallel and high-performance computing as part of Enthought's extensive on-site and on-line Python training