Kirill Müller has been working on the boundary between data and computer science for more than 20 years. He has been awarded five R consortium projects to improve database connectivity and performance optimization in R. Kirill is a core contributor to several tidyverse packages, including dplyr and tibble. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from ETH Zurich and is a founder and partner at cynkra, an RStudio Full Service Partner.