Jonathan Cornelissen
Co-founder CEO at DataCamp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Cornelissen is a founder and CEO with 16 years of experience building DataCamp into a global leader in data and AI literacy, serving over 14 million learners and thousands of organizations. He blends deep quantitative expertise—holding a PhD in financial econometrics—with practical product and engineering chops from early developer training and open-source work on high-frequency data tools. Based in New York, he has a track record of launching education ventures (including Belgium’s first nonprofit online tutoring platform) and mentoring others as a lecturer and angel investor. Jonathan is passionate about rstats, Python, and scalable edtech that makes data accessible, and he pairs academic rigor with startup pragmatism. A detail that often surprises collaborators: his research combined high-frequency portfolio optimization with sustainability scoring, foreshadowing today’s emphasis on data-driven responsible investing.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Commercial Engineering, Commercial Engineering at KU LeuvenCode academyEconomics, Economics at Université Paris Dauphine - PSLGreek - Mathematics, Greek - Mathematics at Sint-Albertuscollege
Dutch, French, English
Github Skills (14)
knitr10
estimate10
noise10
r-package10
bookdown10
financial-data9
periodicity9
forecast9
volatility9
financial8
finance8
r-programming7
integrate7
web-application1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vmandrade/datacamp
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:34 commits in 4 months
valentinadie/DM
Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
Help functions for the DataMind.org
Contributions:34 commits in 3 months
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