Holden Karau

San Francisco, CA , (425) 233 8271

holden@pigscanfly.ca

Highlight of Achievements

Skills and Proficiencies

Programming Languages

Scala, Java, Python, SQL

Not So Recent Programming Languages

Scheme, Perl, C, C++

Markup Languages

LaTeX, HTML, XML

Development Tools

Spark, Emacs, SVN, GIT

Work Experience

Netflix

Software Enginer Apache Spark [June 2021 - Present]

Apple

Software Enginer, TL Apache Spark [August 2019 - June 2021]

Google

Open Source Big Data Developer Advocate [October 2017 - August 2019]

IBM - Spark Technology Center (Analytics, Watson Data Platform, and OTG)

Principal Software Engineer [October 2015 - October 2017]

Alpine Data Labs

Senior Software Development Engineer [May 2015 - October 2015]

Databricks

Senior Software Development Engineer [February 2014 - May 2015]

Google

Software Development Engineer [August 2012-February 2014]

Foursquare

Software Development Engineer [March 2011-August 2012]

Amazon

Software Development Engineer [September 2009-March 2011]

Software Development Intern [Summer 2008]

Microsoft

Program Manager Intern [Winter 2008]

Google

Summer of Code [Summer 2007]

Xandros - Linux Distribution

Software Developer, Core-OS [work-term Fall 2006]

Pigs Can Fly Computing and Totally Legit Co.

Owner, Programmer, Systems Administrator [Summer 2002 - Present]

Net Integration - Linux based intelligent servers

"Evil Death Ray" [work-term Winter 2006]

Department of Housing Technology Waterloo - Residence computer network

Senior Residence Computer Consultant [Fall 2005, May 2006 - September 2007]

Technical Support Specialist [work-term Summer 2005]

Organizations

University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

Systems Administrator: Fall 2005, Summer 2006, and Winter 2007

Treasurer: Winter 2005

President: Fall 2007

IEEE Computer Society

Student Member 2004 - to present

Education


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