Ali Ghodsi

Ali Ghodsi is a computer scientist and entrepreneur specializing in distributed systems and big data. He is a co-founder and CEO of Databricks, and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. Ideas from his academic research, in the area of resource management and scheduling and data caching, have been applied in popular open source projects such as Apache Mesos, Apache Spark, and Apache Hadoop. In 2013, he co-founded Databricks, a company that commercializes Spark. He became CEO of Databricks in January 2016.

Ali Ghodsi

Ali Ghodsi is a computer scientist and entrepreneur specializing in distributed systems and big data. He is a co-founder and CEO of Databricks, and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. Ideas from his academic research, in the area of resource management and scheduling and data caching, have been applied in popular open source projects such as Apache Mesos, Apache Spark, and Apache Hadoop. In 2013, he co-founded Databricks, a company that commercializes Spark. He became CEO of Databricks in January 2016.