Janani has a Masters degree from Stanford and worked for 7+ years at Google. She was one of the original engineers on Google Docs and holds 4 patents for its real-time collaborative editing framework. After spending years working in tech in the Bay Area, New York, and Singapore at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Flipkart, Janani finally decided to combine her love for technology with her passion for teaching. She is now the co-founder of Loonycorn, a content studio focused on providin... moreg high-quality content for technical skill development. Loonycorn is working on developing an engine (patent filed) to automate animations for presentations and educational content.

Brandon has a BSc in Mathematics from Huston-Tillotson University and is a master’s candidate in Northwestern University's Predictive Analytics program, where he specializes in predictive modeling. He spent seven years in the U.S. Navy where he developed a pragmatic and engaging teaching style. Brandon's aversion to academic nonsense and penchant for student engagement earned him jobs training the Navies of Senegal, Cabo Verde, Gabon, and Nigeria on behalf of the United States. Brandon began lea... morerning R with no programming knowledge. He learned everything by trial-and-error from documentation, forums, and blogs. He is excited to provide comprehensive courses that lay everything out in the way that Brandon wishes someone would have done for him. He has previously worked on modeling anomalies in ship navigation and digitizing hand-written documents. Brandon currently lives in central Japan, where he is applying analytics to human resources processes within the Navy.

Chase is currently Lead Data Scientist at Tesorio and formerly was an Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He holds a BS, MS, and PhD, all in Economics, from the University of Utah. Prior to graduate school, Chase served two combat tours to Iraq with the US Marine Corps and competed in the 2010 Winter Olympic Trials in Bobsled. Chase is passionate about building automated machine learning systems and is a regular speaker at academic and pra... morectitioner conferences. He lives in Salt Lake City and is an avid skier, mountain biker, and coffee junkie.