Holden Karau
@holdenkarau.com
she/her, mostly OSS big data (Spark, Dask, Ray, and friends). I ❤️☕️🛵. I don't represent my employer. Live @ http://twitch.tv/holdenkarau , http://tech.lgbt/@holden , Twitter was @holdenkarau
Finishing up my slides for @smalldatasf in the @McDonalds parking lot with a Frappé. The free WiFi is so so but I needed to get out of the house :) P.S. want to hear about when not to use Spark? Check out my session this Wednesday ❤️
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Finishing up my slides for @smalldatasf in the @McDonalds parking lot with a Frappé. The free WiFi is so so but I needed to get out of the house :) P.S. want to hear about when not to use Spark? Check out my session this Wednesday ❤️
I had a dream where I woke up in a country with affordable medical coverage. Then I actually woke up and got back to work on FHI :p Also check out our new logo :)
February 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I had a dream where I woke up in a country with affordable medical coverage. Then I actually woke up and got back to work on FHI :p Also check out our new logo :)
Listening to pink pony club on @SFBART on my way to talk to VCs for Fight Health Insurance :) (not pictured: my coffee.)
January 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Listening to pink pony club on @SFBART on my way to talk to VCs for Fight Health Insurance :) (not pictured: my coffee.)
Came out of morning exercise this morning to the scene of a crash at 26th and Valencia :(
January 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Came out of morning exercise this morning to the scene of a crash at 26th and Valencia :(
Dinner… took a turn. Bean cookie!
December 29, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Dinner… took a turn. Bean cookie!
Nothing like going viral while on a date and checking on the server stats wearing a sparkly red dress & motorcycle jacket :) — www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldK...
December 7, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Nothing like going viral while on a date and checking on the server stats wearing a sparkly red dress & motorcycle jacket :) — www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldK...
Jazzercise with Mr Pickles
December 6, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Jazzercise with Mr Pickles
Nothing like google drive calling me out with saying that I frequently open the DataFrame/Dataset chapter around this time of day (grinding on High Performance Spark 2e) :) :p
April 18, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Nothing like google drive calling me out with saying that I frequently open the DataFrame/Dataset chapter around this time of day (grinding on High Performance Spark 2e) :) :p
Peak Bay Area: training a model over starlink.
November 11, 2023 at 7:15 PM
Peak Bay Area: training a model over starlink.
Don’t worry coiled made it to the final version :)
October 9, 2023 at 5:49 PM
Don’t worry coiled made it to the final version :)
Decorations for the holiday season. Skeleton on 🛵
September 27, 2023 at 8:22 PM
Decorations for the holiday season. Skeleton on 🛵
Come say hi if you see me at #current23 love to chat with folks about @ApacheSpark , @ApacheIceberg , @dask_dev or @raydistributed 😊 #leathertuesday
September 26, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Come say hi if you see me at #current23 love to chat with folks about @ApacheSpark , @ApacheIceberg , @dask_dev or @raydistributed 😊 #leathertuesday
New* invention: Maple Icecream Coffee
(*did not search google)
(*did not search google)
July 28, 2023 at 1:35 AM
New* invention: Maple Icecream Coffee
(*did not search google)
(*did not search google)
Saw Barbie movie now I’m so tired and it’s before 10 😛
July 26, 2023 at 4:47 AM
Saw Barbie movie now I’m so tired and it’s before 10 😛
Getting close to finishing the QCs on “Scaling Python with Dask”, you can tell by how low I am on toner 😛
July 6, 2023 at 5:08 AM
Getting close to finishing the QCs on “Scaling Python with Dask”, you can tell by how low I am on toner 😛
We are back home, without our bags of course, but the professor is very happy.
July 4, 2023 at 1:51 AM
We are back home, without our bags of course, but the professor is very happy.
The door person at the club ( Schwuz ) we went to on Friday did the best intro speech for a queer club I’ve heard and did a great job of setting the vibe (and folks inside were lovely too just the intro speech was markedly different than I’m used to) ❤️😊
July 2, 2023 at 5:18 PM
The door person at the club ( Schwuz ) we went to on Friday did the best intro speech for a queer club I’ve heard and did a great job of setting the vibe (and folks inside were lovely too just the intro speech was markedly different than I’m used to) ❤️😊
Scala Center Folks at the Scala meetup in Oakland talking about scala-cli
June 9, 2023 at 2:34 AM
Scala Center Folks at the Scala meetup in Oakland talking about scala-cli
Come join me on stream writing ASF Spark migration rules :) https://twitch.tv/holdenkarau
May 2, 2023 at 11:03 PM
Come join me on stream writing ASF Spark migration rules :) https://twitch.tv/holdenkarau
If your PyData Seattle come join me at 1:30 (really soon) for Distributed Computing 4 Kids 😊 Spark focused but with some Ray/Dask shout outs :)
April 27, 2023 at 8:22 PM
If your PyData Seattle come join me at 1:30 (really soon) for Distributed Computing 4 Kids 😊 Spark focused but with some Ray/Dask shout outs :)