Eric Charles

TLDR

Eric Charles is the founder and CEO of Datalayer, a Brussels-based platform that brings AI agents to Jupyter and data-science workflows.

Background

Charles was a committer on Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab, and Jupyter Server at Project Jupyter from 2019 to 2024. He founded Datalayer in 2020 to make it easier for data analysts and developers to build on top of the Jupyter ecosystem with accelerated GPU kernels and AI-driven workflows.

What They Do

As CEO he leads Datalayer's product, including its Jupyter MCP server, AI agents for Jupyter, and Jupyter Embed, with the platform sold both on-prem and as SaaS.