Brendan McCollam is a developer for the University of Chicago, working on the Globus project (globus.org): a data management platform for large-scale scientific data. Formerly he worked at Leapfrog Online, where he released the 'rstr' package. He is a graduate of Pomona College, where he studied neuroscience and mathematics; he was the recipient of a 2008 Watson Fellowship. Brendan lives outside London.