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CTO and Co-founder of Databricks
CTO and Co-founder / Databricks / Associate Professor of Computer Science / UC Berkeley
Matei Zaharia is the CTO and Co-founder of Databricks, a leading Data + AI platform, and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He is the creator of the widely used Apache Spark computing engine, which he started during his PhD. Zaharia has also contributed to other major open-source data and AI software, including Delta Lake, MLflow, DBRX, and DSPy.
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CTO and Co-founder of Databricks
Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Creator of Apache Spark
Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Databases, Security
Matei Zaharia is a leading figure in distributed systems and AI, known for creating Apache Spark and co-founding Databricks. His work spans large-scale data processing, machine learning, and building reliable LLM applications.