Keith Alexander Ashe spent his career using data and technology to transform processes and systems. Although he took a couple programming courses in high school and college; he ultimately used weekend projects, self-paced learning, and on-the-job experience to become a full stack software developer. Mr. Ashe previously worked at Booz Allen, Gartner, Citibank, Happy Money, and Rollbar before launching his own consulting firm, Ordinal Prime.

His last project was working as a contractor with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Institute for Disease Modeling to prepare Starsim for a public beta release. Starsim is an open-source, stochastic disease simulation modeling tool built using Python.

He created the PyForward training series because he wanted to make it easier for others to start coding in Python. He is a graduate of Florida A&M University and Columbia University with a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering, respectively. He also earned a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt from Villanova University.