Stephen Holiday

Passionate for engineering, distributed scalable systems, search, and machine learning.

Currently

I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Google working on Spanner, a globally distributed database with consistent transactions and SQL.

Previously I worked on optimizing the C++ search backend to improve latency and save money.

Recent Writing

• Notes on Distributed Systems
• Spaced Repetition: My Learning Secret
• That First Co-op Job
• My Backup Strategy
• How Project Rhino leverages Hadoop to build a graph of the music world