Holden Karau

530 Highland ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K2A 2J7 , (425) 233 8271

3407 24th Street, San Francisco, 94110 , (425) 233 8271

holden@pigscanfly.ca

Highlight of Achievements

• Apache Spark Committer

• Received IBM OTAA award and Google Open Source Peer Bonus for work on Apache Spark

• Co-author of Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, and author of Fast Data Processing With Spark

• Updated linux kernel wireless drivers - Recipient of Xandros Outstanding evaluation

• Wrote a site monitoring application for Android

• Proposed, developed and implemented source code search engine: All The Code - success of tool positively reviewed at Ottawa & Guelph DemoCamps and on Slashdot

• Created plt-scheme web application feature on Slashdot and other media

• Successfully developed and implemented a geographically and network topologically aware dynamic load balancer for Net Integration

• Created and managed a consulting services company, Pigs Can Fly Computing. Facilitated and led teams of specialists/programmers/developers. Provided ongoing liaison between specialists and clients in order to clearly define client needs, ensure technical feasibility of solutions, and produce customized software solutions

Skills and Proficiencies

Programming Languages

Scala, Scheme, Java, Perl, PHP, C, C++, SQL

Markup Languages

LaTeX, HTML, XML

Development Tools

Spark, Valgrind, GDB, Emacs, CVS, SVN, GIT, SWIG

Work Experience

IBM - Spark Technology Center

Principal Software Engineer [October 2015 - Present]

• Worked on improvements for Spark focused in Core, ML, and Python

• Helped other developers get up to speed and contribute to Spark

• Gave talks and training sessions for Spark

Alpine Data Labs

Senior Software Development Engineer [May 2015 - October 2015]

• Worked on improvements to Alpine's Spark integration

• Worked on improvements to Spark

Databricks

Senior Software Development Engineer [February 2014 - May 2015]

• Worked on backend improvements for Databricks cloud

• Worked on improvements for Spark

• Taught and Assisted Spark Trainings

Google

Software Development Engineer [August 2012-February 2014]

• Worked on improvements to the Google+ storage backend

• Worked on different methods to improve recommendations on Google+

Foursquare

Software Development Engineer [March 2011-August 2012]

• Improved venue & user search using Elastic Search and Solr

Amazon

Software Development Engineer [September 2009-March 2011]

Software Development Intern [Summer 2008]

• Created product miss-classification detection system using AI techniques

• Improvements to classification tools

• Helped create a system to recommend browse nodes for keywords

Microsoft

Program Manager Intern [Winter 2008]

• Spec-d and costed various performance improvements

Google

Summer of Code [Summer 2007]

• Created bindings for Subversion in Scheme (both mzscheme and stalin scheme)

• Gained commit access to Subversion repository

UW Enterprise Co-Op

Software Developer and Everything Else [work-term Summer 2007]

• Proposed, developed, and implemented source code search engine, All The Code

• Worked with customers to create custom solutions to improve developer productivity

• Scaled Ruby on Rails application in collaboration with AideRSS

Xandros - Linux Distribution

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

• Improved wireless signal strength reporting in numerous drivers

• Forward ported numerous wireless card drivers

• Improved fat32 sync performance

Pigs Can Fly Computing - Computer Consulting Company

Owner, Programmer, Systems Administrator [Summer 2002 - Fall 2006]

• Employed, supervised, and lead teams of programmers in software development

• Worked collaboratively with clients to specify their objectives and interpret these goals to the team

• Project management: estimated time lines and overall financial costs in order to successfully bid on projects

Net Integration - Linux based intelligent servers

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

• Created a transparent dynamic mirror selection Apache module

• Wrote Perl library for automated testing

• Developed automated tests and reviewed test results

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]

• Trained and supported ResNet computer consultants in maintaining and utilizing networking tools for residence users.

• Wrote virus removal tools to handle viruses not properly removed by Norton Anti-Virus

Organizations

University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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

• Administered Linux machines

• Organized Systems Committee

Treasurer: Winter 2005

• • • Prepared and presented budget

President: Fall 2007

• • • Decide overall club policies

    • Organize computing contest preparation resources

IEEE Computer Society

Student Member 2004 - to present

• Participated in programming contests

• Kept up to date with Intelligent Systems developments, and overall industry

Education

• Bachelor of Math , Computer Science Business Option, Co-Op Program University of Waterloo, Waterloo , Ont. 2004-2009

• Completed CS444 [Compilers] & CS452 [Real Time Operating Systems]