Matei Zaharia is a computer scientist, Databricks co-founder and CTO, and associate professor at UC Berkeley. He created Apache Spark and works on open-source data and AI systems including Delta Lake, MLflow, DSPy, LOTUS, and GEPA.
Matei Zaharia is a computer scientist, Databricks co-founder and CTO, and associate professor at UC Berkeley. He created Apache Spark and works on open-source data and AI systems including Delta Lake, MLflow, DSPy, LOTUS, and GEPA.
Career
Associate Professor of EECS at University of California, Berkeley from 2023-07 to Present.
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Databricks until Present in San Francisco, California, United States.Co-founded Databricks in 2013 and leads its technology organization; originated Apache Spark during his doctoral work.
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University from 2022-09 to 2023-07.Previously an assistant professor at Stanford from 2016 to 2022.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2015-03 to 2016-09.