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Holden Karau

American-Canadian computer programmer, author, and open source evangelist

Life: 1986 – present
Born: October 4, 1986

Holden Karau 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. She is also a member of The Apache Software Foundation.