My name is Kevin Kho. I am currently working as an AI Engineer at Drata applying AI towards the compliance industry. I maintain Fugue, a minimal interface to bring Python, Pandas, and SQL code to Spark, Dask, and Ray. Recently, I was at Prefect as an Open Source Community Engineer where I managed the Slack community and created content. Before working on open-source tooling, I was a data scientist for four years across Paylocity and Itron.

📭    Contact me!

Feel free to reach out to me for anything data related. Happy to talk to literally anyone. Always happy to speak at meetups or company meetings about the things I'm working on.

Website: https://kevinkho.com/

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kvnkho

🌎    Location

I am currently based out of Los Angeles. Always happy to meet people in person.

📝    Blogs

I mainly write about the things I am working on. Here are some:

• Interoperable Python and SQL in Jupyter Notebooks
• Why Pandas-like Interfaces are Sub-optimal for Distributed Computing
• Using Pandera on Spark for Data Validation through Fugue
• The Simple Guide to Productionizing Data Workflows with Docker
• Introducing Fugue — Reducing PySpark Developer Friction

My Medium Profile will have all of my articles.

📢    Conference Talks

I've given a couple of talks about Fugue, Prefect, and distributed computing. Here are some:

• SciPy 2022 - Introduction to Workflow Orchestration with Prefect
• PyCon US 2022 - Comparing the Different Ways to Scale Python and Pandas Code
• Databricks Summit 2022 - FugueSQL - The Enhanced SQL Interface for Pandas and Spark DataFrames
• PyCon US 2021 - Large Scale Data Validation with Spark and Dask
• PyData Global 2021 - An Intro to Workflow Management with Prefect

🎤    Podcasts

• Data Engineeing Podcast - Build Your Python Data Processing Your Way And Run It Anywhere With Fugue

💙    Community

I am involved in some other things:

• DataKind - I volunteered for two projects helping non-profits with data science/data engineering work
• Orlando Machine Learning and Data Science - I organized/co-organized this Meetup for 4 years
• Adventurous Analytics - I advise non-profit data science consulting projects, primarily around the Florida foster care system
• Conference Involvement:
  • SciPy 2022 Data Life Cycle Track Co-chair
  • PyData Seattle 2023 Organizing Committee

🤓    Other Interests

• Mechanical Keyboards
• Basketball
• Kpop