PyOhio 2026
Based in Cleveland Ohio, Ethan is the founder of Aphoryx, an AI, data science, and data engineering consultancy. With nearly 15 years of software engineering experience, he brings a craft-oriented approach to building production systems, with deep expertise in NLP, document understanding pipelines, and data infrastructure. He believes engineering is a discipline of precision and accountability, and that the hardest problems reward depth over shortcuts. His current work applies that philosophy to healthcare, where the stakes demand it most.