Hey Friends! Snowflake is hiring forward deployed engineers for Snowpark with Spark experience in Menlo Park (Bay Area) and Bellevue (Seattle area). If slaying OOMs, while teaching customers how to run Spark on Snowflake, the posting is at jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/97...

I think it was there and taken out (they used to be less aggressive drivers but that could just be my sample size)

If the Python core team started a weekly/monthly newsletter, what would y'all want out of it? What would make you excited to see the notification in your inbox?

@emmatyping.dev and I were brainstorming a bit on this the other day, inspired a bit by @thisweekinrust.bsky.social.

Don’t love how the Waymo’s drive at you while your still in the crosswalk predicting your exit time, like I know it’s what a lot of people do buut it feels like we should do better.

underCurrent: Data Engineering No sponsors. No fluff. Just data engineering. Join your fellow data practitioners and architects in San Francisco on March 26.

I’m excited to be talking at Undercurrent this week in SF (I think it’s in the IKEA building too!) come and join me fellow data nerds (is free, but limited space so advanced reg) — current.confluent.io/data-engineers

Spark Transpilation Continued: Now in Python YouTube video by Holden Karau

Come join me for hacking on more on Spark transpilation: from UDF to catalyst :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYvR...

Building in the open isn’t for everyone, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. 🛠️ Spark PMC member and Snowflake Software Engineer Holden Karau shares why we’re keeping our design debates and… | Sno... Building in the open isn’t for everyone, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. 🛠️ Spark PMC member and Snowflake Software Engineer Holden Karau shares why we’re keeping our design debates and develo...

I have a post up about my new day job and why we’re building on Apache Spark at Snowflake (and why you should consider working in OSS too): www.linkedin.com/posts/snowfl...

New toy! I’m going to try and set it up with Moonshine later this week :)

Women+ in Open Source Day · Luma Open source is built on collaboration—and it’s time to amplify the voices of the women+ doing this critical work. Join us on March 9th for a full-day event…

SF / Bay Area Women+ in OSS (or wanting to be in OSS) join us on March 9th for a full day event of awesome OSS adventures — luma.com/qcqlia4g?tk=...

Awww thank you 😊❤️

Come join us this Sunday for fun queer motorcycle/scooter adventures!

I think this iteration will probably be primarily in person, but we might record some parts and if it goes well enough we can try and run a virtual one later :)

Apache Spark™ Community Sprint · Luma Apache Spark™ Community Sprint! Join us on March 17th (Tuesday) from 12:00-7:00 PM at the Snowflake Bellevue Office for a Spark community sprint! We'll spend…

Want to get involved in open source (specifically Apache Spark)? We're running a Community Sprint in Seattle luma.com/rrfvx0ey for folks wanting to get started on Friday, March 13

Spark PR Update Time, Sharing Seattle Event, and Code Reviews :) YouTube video by Holden Karau

Hacking on @apachespark times again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i25n... come and join me for trying to get a PR over the finish line, some code reviews, and figuring out where to share the contributor sprint event :)

And, don't forget: we now have AI tools to help us appeal! @holdenkarau.com blog.sstrumello.com/2024/09/harn...

Awwww

Love to see Moonshine’s edge voice models winning and going to play with the colab next week :)

Love to see small models winning, less power greener, faster, and capable of running outside of the hyperscalers :)

How everyone and anyone can use AI for good - Stack Overflow

indeed.

"when Holden Karau created FightHealthInsurance, she really was fighting—not just for access to easy and affordable healthcare, but also for a better world for the people around her."

stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/12/h...

Cuuute

Thank you!

Building Apache Spark™ in the Open at Snowflake Why Holden Karau joined and what she's building at Snowflake.

I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Snowflake working OSS Apache Spark and I’ve written a post about what we’re doing careers.snowflake.com/us/en/blogar... :) (don’t worry I’m still working on Fight Health Insurance too thanks to coffee powered scaling)

Is anyone using AI for good? - Stack Overflow

Love to see @fightpaperwork.bsky.social covered in Phoebe's Stackoverflow post on AI for good: stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/11/i... :D

Is anyone using AI for good? - Stack Overflow

holden & fight health insurance in stack overflow blog "From that point on, I would use FightHealthInsurance as a rebuttal to the doom-and-gloom approach to AI my friends would take." 💛

stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/11/i...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Apache Spark Optimization: Practical Deep Dive. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join Holden Karau (Principal Engineer OSS Spark) and Daniel Aronovich (Co-Founder & CTO, DataFlint) for a practical, in-depth session on Spark optimization that goes beyond generic best practices. We ...

Super stoked to be talking with Daniel Aronovich about Spark optimization ~now (10am pacific), come join us:

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hey London friends have nothing to do on a Monday night? I’ll be giving a talk about some of the cool AI stuff you can do with Apache Spark, including appealing health insurance denials, and the infra behind it :) Come say hi! luma.com/e3bw395h

The KFK bar is not associated with the Kafka project, but the queue was long when I looked last night so maybe they should be….

Holden next to her pink fuzzy jacket

Hanging at FOSDEM if you want to chat about Apache Spark or fighting health insurance with AI come find me :)

Stickers for the Icerberg meetup :) luma.com/yx3lhqu9

It’s not a lot of days lately I agree with the white house but an end to pharmacy benefit manager kickbacks is long overdue.