Joris Bekkers is an independent sports data analytics consultant, specializing in analytics research, technical consulting, strategic consulting and software engineering. He has nearly 10 years of experience in cutting-edge football analytics working with on-ball event data, positional tracking data, and skeletal tracking data. Joris consults for sports organizations, startups, and data providers to develop advanced analytics solutions, production-ready software, research and development and offers insights into all aspects of the football analytics landscape. Beyond client work, Joris advocates for open-source sports analytics as a co-founder of PySport, by maintaining the UnRavelSports Python package and contributing to kloppy.