Gerard Bentley

Tyler: Hey, Gerard! Let’s get started, I was wondering if you could give us a bit about your background. What do you do for work? What got you started in the data world?

Gerard: Right now, I’m working on backend web services at a startup called Sensible Weather. We sell an insurance guarantee against bad weather, a new product in the climate tech space. I haven’t gotten a lot of time to use Streamlit here, but I use it for a couple of things internally that haven’t completely been deployed yet.

Previously, I worked at a mortgage company, doing mostly batch ETL work, where I got a bit of exposure to data science and predictive models in finance. There, it was fun to build something internal in Streamlit to visualize what would happen if a person’s credit score were higher, or if they put more principal down, etc. Before Streamlit we didn’t have a tool to answer those questions quickly.

Tyler: So, you were mostly focused...