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Richa Khandelwal

Software Engineer and Traveler

Serving Athletes* with Personalized Workout Recommendations

My post on Workout Recommender system is now up on the Nike Engineering blog - https://medium.com/nikeengineering/serving-athletes-with-personalized-workout-recommendations-285491eabc3d The post provides insight into the »

Tuning Spark Jobs on EMR with YARN - Lessons Learnt

Apache Spark is a distributed processing system that can process data at a very large scale. Even though Spark's memory model is optimized to handle large »

Is She Even a Developer?

It has been 6 years since I overheard this question/comment about me. My co-workers were reviewing my pull request. One of them got frustrated and »

Cross-Account S3 bucket settings for data transfer on Hadoop based systems

While trying to write some data from one AWS account to another, I ran into several cross-account S3 settings issues. Google was coming out thin on »

Strata + Hadoop 2016 Conference in NY

This past September, Nike approved my request to attend the Strata + Hadoop Conference in New York. Strata is one of the biggest conferences for Engineers who »