Our mission is a seamless data processing experience on any scale

How it started

Polars started out as a hobby project in 2020, but quickly gained traction within the open source community. Many developers were searching for an easy-to-use DataFrame library that was performant at the same time, and Polars set out to fill this void. The community grew fast as many contributors came in from various backgrounds and programming languages. Because of great community effort, Polars now officially supports three languages (Rust, Python, JS) with two more on the way (R, Ruby).

Alongside this rapid open source expansion, we will provide commitment and long term support of the project with our company. Read more about this in our company announcement.

Our board

Richie Vink

BDFL & CO-FOUNDER

Ritchie founded the Polars open source project in 2020. With a background in Civil Engineering and previously working on ML and data applications, he has an extreme drive to move the industry forward with accessible high performance tooling.

Chiel Peters

CO-FOUNDER

As the previous CTO of Xomnia, Chiel has extensive experience in leading data teams and building data platforms. With a background in Software Engineering and over 10 years of experience in the data domain, he is passionate about delivering high quality data pipelines.

Open source developers

Careers

Rust Software Engineer

Amsterdam / HYBRID

Do you want to make a difference in a fast growing company? Come join our team. We are always happy to welcome talented new people. If you cannot find a position above that you'd like to apply for, submit an open application to hr@polars.tech