Sylvain Corlay is the founder and CEO of QuantStack.
As an open-source developer, Sylvain is active in the scientific computing ecosystem, particularly within the Jupyter project, as well as the conda-forge and xtensor projects. In 2018, he and the other Jupyter leadership members were awarded the ACM Software System Award.
Beyond QuantStack, Sylvain is involved in the community. He served as a board member of the NumFOCUS Foundation from 2018 to 2024, as the vice-chair of JupyterCon 2020, and General Chair of JupyterCon 2023 in Paris. He has coordinated the PyData Paris community since 2017, both as the organizer of the meetup group and as co-organizer of the annual conference in 2024 and 2025.