Sylvain Corlay is the founder and president of QuantStack, a company specializing in open-source software for scientific computing.
As an open-source developer, Sylvain is highly active in the free scientific computing ecosystem, particularly in the Jupyter project, as well as in the conda-forge and xtensor projects. In 2018, he was honored, along with other Jupyter leadership members, with the ACM Software System Award.
Beyond QuantStack, Sylvain is deeply involved in the community. He served on the board of directors of the NumFOCUS Foundation from 2018 to 2024, organized JupyterCon 2023 in Paris, and has coordinated the PyData community in Paris since 2017, acting as the organizer of the meetup group and the PyData conference in 2024 and 2025.