Tim Wheeler is a software engineer working on flying autonomous cars at Kitty Hawk. He recently got his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford for research in automotive artificial intelligence and methods for validating the safety of autonomous vehicles. Tim has sent weather balloons to the edge of space, hit Space X rockets with a big hammer, and written a college-level textbook on optimization. He loves Julia and has contributed to several METADATA packages, including PGFPlots.jl, Discretizers.jl, and CrossfilterCharts.jl.