Holden Karau

Holden is a transgender Canadian open source developer advocate @ Google with a focus on Apache Spark, BEAM, and related "big data" tools. She is the co-author of Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, and another Spark book that's a bit more out of date. She is a commiter on and PMC on Apache Spark and committer on SystemML & Mahout projects. She was tricked into the world of big data while trying to improve search and recommendation systems and has long since forgotten her original goal.

Presentations

Making the Big Data ecosystem work together with Python: Apache Arrow, Spark, Beam, and Dask

Saturday 16:00–16:45 in Tower Suite 1, Tower Suite 2, Tower Suite 3, Mortimer Room

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