Holden Karau

Holden Karau
Born (1986-10-04) October 4, 1986
Known forOpen source, Apache Spark
Websiteholdenkarau.com

Holden Karau (born October 4, 1986) is an American-Canadian computer scientist and author based in San Francisco, CA. She is best known for her work on Apache Spark, her advocacy in the open-source software movement, and her creation and maintenance of a variety of related projects including spark-testing-base. In addition to her work on big data she co-founded Fight Health Insurance,[1] an early AI tool to help people appeal insurance denials. She is also a member of The Apache Software Foundation.[2]

Apache Spark

Holden is best known for her work on Apache Spark where she is a member of the PMC.[3] In 2016, she was recognized for her work on Apache Spark by the Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program.[4] She was also included in the Faces of Open Source work in recognition of her work in the open-source community.[5]

Author

Holden has written a number of books on technology including:

  • Fast Data Processing With Spark [6]
  • Learning Spark [7]
  • High Performance Spark [8]
  • Kubeflow for Machine Learning [9]
  • Scaling Python with Dask
  • Scaling Python with Ray[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Fight Health Insurance — With Help From AI". KFF Health News. Retrieved 2026-08-12.
  2. ↑ "ASF Committers by Auth Group". Apache Software Foundation. January 5, 2021. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Committers - Apache Spark". Apache Spark. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  4. ↑ "Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program". Google Open Source Blog. Google. 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  5. ↑ "Holden Karau - Faces of Open Source". Faces of Open Source. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  6. ↑ Holden, Karau (2013). Fast Data Processing with Spark. Packt. ISBN 9781782167068.
  7. ↑ Karau, Holden; Konwinski, Andy; Wendell, Patrick; Zaharia, Matei (2015). Learning Spark. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781449358624.
  8. ↑ Karau, Holden; Warren, Rachel (2017). High Performance Spark. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781491943205.
  9. ↑ Grant, Trevor; Karau, Holden; Lublinsky, Boris; Liu, Richard; Filonenko, Ilan (2020). Kubeflow for Machine Learning. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781492050124.
  10. ↑ "Scaling Python with Ray 1, Karau, Holden, Lublinsky, Boris, eBook - Amazon.com". www.amazon.com. Archived from the original on 2023-02-07. Retrieved 2026-08-12.


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