About the author

Patrick D. Smith is the Data Science Lead for Excella in Arlington, Virginia, where he founded the data science and machine learning team. Prior to Excella, Patrick was the lead instructor for the data science program at General Assembly in Washington, DC, as well as a data scientist with Booz Allen Hamilton's Strategic Innovations Group.

He holds a bachelor's degree from The George Washington University in International Economics, and is currently a part-time masters student in software engineering at Harvard University.

My journey into technology never would have been possible without my father, Curtis Griswold Smith, who was director of I.T. for one of the the world's first pioneering computer companies, Digital Equipment Corporation. It was he who introduced me to computing at three years old, and where my love of all technology stems from.