Keith Alexander Ashe

Keith Alexander Ashe spent his career using data and technology to transform processes and systems. Although he took a couple programming courses in high school and college; he ultimately used weekend projects, self-paced learning, and on-the-job experience to become a full stack software developer. Mr. Ashe previously worked at Booz Allen, Gartner, Citibank, Happy Money, and Rollbar before launching his own consulting firm, Ordinal Prime.His last project was working as a contractor with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Institute for Disease Modeling to prepare Starsim for a public beta release. Starsim is an open-source, stochastic disease simulation modeling tool built using Python.He created the PyForward training series because he wanted to make it easier for others to start coding in Python. He is a graduate of Florida A&M University and Columbia University with a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering, respectively. He also earned a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt from Villanova University.