Matei Zaharia — CTO
I'm CTO at Databricks and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley. I started the Apache Spark computing engine during my PhD, and helped develop other widely used open source data and AI software, such as MLflow, Delta Lake, DBRX, Dolly, DSPy, MegaBlocks and ColBERT. At Berkeley, my current research covers natural language processing, databases and security, including how to build highly reliable applications with LLMs. At Databricks, I work on all areas of our product.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on data and AI solutions.
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Experience: 21 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Cloud Computing
- Machine Learning
Career Highlights
- Pioneered the Apache Spark computing engine.
- Developed multiple open source data and AI software.
- Expert in natural language processing and databases.
Work Experience
University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor of Computer Science (2 yrs 9 mos)
Stanford University
Associate Professor of Computer Science (10 mos)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (6 yrs)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (1 yr 6 mos)
The Apache Software Foundation
VP, Apache Spark (12 yrs 2 mos)
Hadoop Committer (17 yrs 3 mos)
Databricks
CTO & Cofounder (13 yrs 3 mos)
Software Engineer Intern (0 mo)
UC Berkeley
Computer Science PhD Student (6 yrs 4 mos)
Software Engineer Intern (2 mos)
University of Waterloo
Research Assistant (2 yrs 11 mos)
Education
PhD at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Mathematics at University of Waterloo
