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David Talby

CEO of John Snow Labs and creator of the open-source Spark NLP library; formerly at Microsoft and Amazon

  • Chief Executive Officer, John Snow Labs1

David Talby is the chief executive officer of John Snow Labs, which helps healthcare and life science companies put AI to use, according to Talby's author page on the company's site. The same page credits Talby as the creator of Spark NLP, the company's Apache-2.0 natural language processing library, whose repository citation entry lists Veysel Kocaman and David Talby. The page also describes Talby's experience building and running web-scale software platforms and teams at startups, for Microsoft's Bing, and to scale Amazon's financial systems.12

Work

  • Spark NLP (external site: github.com)Open-source code

    Credited as the creator of Spark NLP on John Snow Labs' author page; the Apache-2.0 repository's citation entry lists Veysel Kocaman and David Talby as authors.12

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.

  • Built and ran web-scale software platforms and teams for Bing, Microsoft (Bing)1
  • Built and ran software platforms and teams to scale Amazon's financial systems, Amazon1

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

  1. 1.
    David Talby — author page, John Snow Labs (external site: johnsnowlabs.com)

    John Snow Labs · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  2. 2.
    JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp README (citation and Apache-2.0 license) (external site: github.com)

    John Snow Labs (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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