Hugo Bowne-Anderson is Head of Developer Relations at Outerbounds, a company committed to building infrastructure that provides a solid foundation for machine learning applications of all shapes and sizes. He is also the host of the industry podcast Vanishing Gradients, where he talks with practitioners about the full stack of machine learning, from experiments to production, including today’s fast-moving world of LLM engineering and RAG.

Hugo is a data scientist, educator, evangelist, content marketer, and data strategy consultant with extensive experience at Coiled, a company that makes it simple for organizations to scale their data science seamlessly, and at DataCamp, the online education platform for all things data. At DataCamp he developed over 30 courses, impacting over 2 million learners worldwide through his own courses, and he created the weekly data industry podcast DataFramed, which he hosted and produced for 2 years.

His teaching experience spans institutions such as Yale University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, conferences such as SciPy, PyCon, and ODSC, and organizations such as Data Carpentry. Across all of it, Hugo is committed to spreading data skills, access to data science tooling, and open source software, both for individuals and the enterprise.