Dewey Dunnington
Dewey Dunnington (Ph.D., P.Geo.) is a software engineer and geoscientist based in Nova Scotia, Canada. As a software engineer he works on all things Apache Arrow at Voltron Data, Inc., including standards for geospatial data connectivity, R bindings for Apache Arrow, and Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC). As a geoscientist, he has worked in contaminated site remediation, taught Applied Geomorphology at Acadia University, and has authored more than a dozen articles on lake water and sediment geochemistry. Dewey is an Apache Arrow Project Management Committee member, an RStudio-certified tidyverse instructor, an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (Doctoral) recipient, and maintainer of dozens of R, Python, C, and C++ libraries at the intersection of geoscience, geospatial data, and enterprise data connectivity.
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nanoarrow, a newly developed subproject of Apache Arrow, is squarely focused on unlocking connectivity among Python packages and the libraries they wrap using the features and rich type support of the Arrow columnar format. The vision of nanoarrow is that it should be trivial for a library to implement an Arrow-based interface: nanoarrow and its bindings provide tools to produce, consume, and transport tabular data between processes using the Arrow IPC format or between libraries using the Arrow C ABI. For Python maintainers this means less glue code that runs faster so that developers can focus on feature development.