Avi Press

About me

Founder and CEO of Scarf, a company focused on open source usage analytics. We process over 2 billion of open source package downloads every day.
Open source maintainer and advocate.
Functional programming enthusiast. I'm serving on the Haskell Foundation board, as well as the Haskell.org committee.
Former engineer at Pandora
Based in Oakland, California

Contact

Follow me on Twitter, Github, or even Bluesky
I hold open office hours for anyone that you can book with me here, no prior confirmation from me required.
Email: mail@avi.press

Content

A Snapshot of How I'm Using AI in February 2026 (with OpenClaw)	2026
A Snapshot of How I'm Using AI in January 2026
Open Source Success: Lessons from 1(0) Billion Downloads	2025
State of Open Con Keynote: Open Source Data Updates
Open Source Summit: What Information are Package & Container Registries Hiding From You?	2024
Open Source Summit: Lessons from 1 Billion OSS Downloads
Analytics are Starting to Win in Open Source
Let's Help Org Mode Escape From Emacs
Call for Haskell Libraries	2023
Why Haskell is a Terrible Choice For Startups (And Why We Picked It Anyway)
How Do You Know if Your Project is Any Good? (All Things Open)	2022
FLOSS Weekly Podcast
The Secret Sauce: Who's Looking At Your GitHub Project? (YouTube)
Percona's HOSS Talks FOSS Podcast
Distribution and the Economics of Open-Source Software (Forbes)
PyCon 2022 Talk - Beyond the Download Count: Understanding the Usage of your Public Python Packages
Open Source Startup Podcast: Understanding Your Open Source Usage with Scarf
Uniting To Act On Untapped Leverage: How Open-Source Maintainers Can Work Together And Prioritize Long-Term Sustainability (Forbes)
Cloud Native Containers Meetup - Beyond the Download: Understanding the Usage of Your Public Containers
Scarf Will Block Package Downloads from the Russian Government
CHAOSSCast:Gathering Open Source Usage Data with Avi Press
Cloud Native Startup Podcast: Making Data Transparent and Accessible
Serokell Blog Interview: Haskell in Production @ Scarf	2021
Measuring Downloads of Anything You Distribute
Committing to Cloud Native Podcast: Analytics for Open Source Maintainers with Avi Press
My interview on the Console Newsletter
Sustain OSS Podcast: Avi Press and Scarf
Announcing The Scarf Gateway
Open Core Summit: Fireside Chat with Joseph Jacks on OSS Analytics	2020
Are Package Registries Holding Open-Source Hostage?
Analytics and Open Source Sustainability
Introduction to Parsers in Haskell (slides)	2019
A Failed Effort to Get Paid for an Open Source Project
Easy Database Access with Haskell and postgresql-simple	2017
Caching Algorithms and Rational Models of Memory	2014

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