Thomas Nield (Author of [Getting Started with SQL (O'Reilly)](https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/getting-started-with/9781491938607/) and [Learning RxJava (Packt)](https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learning-rxjava)) is a business consultant for Southwest Airlines in Network Planning Data Science/Operations Research. Evangelizing pragmatism over idealism, Thomas spoke at [KotlinConf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8GYPG6pt5w) proposing Kotlin as a data science platform and is a maintainer/contributor for a number of OSS projects including [RxKotlin](https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxKotlin), [RxJavaFX](https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJavaFX), [Kotlin-Statistics](https://github.com/thomasnield/kotlin-statistics), and [RxPy](https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPY). Thomas is an author/speaker at O'Reilly Media with books, videos, and online trainings covering topics like SQL, reactive programming, and data science.