Dharhas Pothina is the CTO at OpenTeams where he helps organizations own their AI future using open source solutions. He also leads the development teams for the Nebari, Conda-Store and Ragna open source projects and is on the steering committee for the HoloViz suite of data visualization tools.
His background includes expertise in AI, computational modeling, big data/high performance computing, visualization and geospatial analysis. Prior to his current position he was the CTO at Quansight, a technology firm focussed on sustaining and building the open source PyData and Scientific Python ecosystem. Hi background includes 15 years in state and federal research labs where he led large multi-disciplinary, multi-agency research programs.
He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and an MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a BTech in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Dharhas is passionate about enabling scientists and engineers with tools that let them scale as well as share their analyses, he loves woodworking, photography and teaching his daughters to love science.
