Person
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Databricks
Ali Ghodsi (born 1978) is an Iranian-Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, specializing in distributed systems, big data and data management. He is a co-founder and CEO of Databricks and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. He co-authored several influential papers, including Apache Mesos and Apache Spark SQL. Ghodsi holds a PhD in computer science.
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201520202025
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer - Databricks10 years and 9 months
Co-founder and VP of Engineering & Product Management - Databricks2 years and 5 months
Work Education
1Experience
- DCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer - DatabricksCurrentJan 2016 - Present (10 years and 9 months)
- DCo-founder and VP of Engineering & Product Management - DatabricksJul 2013 - Dec 2015 (2 years and 5 months)