Databricks is a company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, that aims to help clients with cloud-based big data processing using Spark. Databricks grew out of the AMPLab project at University of California, Berkeley that was involved in making Apache Spark, a distributed computing framework built atop Scala. Its co-founders are: Ali Ghodsi, CEO, University of California, Berkeley adjunct professor and co-founder, Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica, Executive Chairman, University of California, Berkeley professor and co-founder and CTO of Conviva, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia, Chief Technologist, who created Apache Spark while a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a professor at the Stanford University.