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<h1>About the Authors</h1>

<p><strong>Holden Karau</strong> is a queer transgender Canadian, Apache Spark committer, Apache Software Foundation member, and active open source contributor. As a software engineer, she's worked on a variety of distributed computing, search, and classification problems at Apple, Google, IBM, Alpine, Databricks, Foursquare, and Amazon. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a bachelor of mathematics in computer science. Outside of software, she enjoys playing with fire, welding, riding scooters, eating poutine, and dancing.</p>

<p><strong>Mika Kimmins</strong> is a data engineer, distributed systems researcher, and ML consultant. She has worked on a variety of NLP, language modeling, reinforcement learning, and ML pipelining at scale as a Siri data engineer at Apple, as an academic, and in not-for-profit engineering capacities. She holds an MS in engineering science and an MBA from Harvard, and a BS in computer science and mathematics from the University of Toronto. As a Korean-Canadian-American trans woman, Mika is active in data-driven advocacy for queer health care access, advises undergraduate computer science students, and attempts to keep her volunteer EMT courses current. Her hobbies include figure skating, aerial arts, and sewing.</p>
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