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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 an 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>Boris Lublinsky</strong> is a Chief Architect for IBM’s Discovery Accelerator Platform, where he specializes in Kubernetes, serverless, workflows, and complex systems design. Boris has over 30 years of experience in enterprise architecture and software development. He is the coauthor of <em>Applied SOA</em> (Wiley), <em>Professional Hadoop Solutions</em> (Wiley), <a class="orm:hideurl" href="https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/serving-machine-learning/9781492024095"><em>Serving Machine Learning Models</em></a> (O’Reilly), and <a class="orm:hideurl" href="https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/kubeflow-for-machine/9781492050117"><em>Kubeflow for Machine Learning</em></a> (O’Reilly). He is also a contributor to several open source projects. Boris is a frequent speaker at numerous industry conferences and cofounder of several Chicago user groups.</p>
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