Rank #845
Matei Zaharia
Net worth $5.0B
Data analytics · Romania
- Born
- Apr 21, 1985
- Age
- 41
- Source
- Data analytics
- Residence
- Berkeley, California
- Citizenship
- Romania
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley; Bachelor of Science, University of Waterloo
Net worth over time
Biography
- Matei Zaharia is cofounder and chief technology officer of software startup Databricks, which private investors valued at $134 billion in February.
- He is the mastermind behind popular analytics engine Apache Spark, which was conceived when he was a 24-year-old Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley.
- Spark set a world record for speed of data sorting in 2014 and won Zaharia an award for the year's best computer science dissertation.
- In 2013, Zaharia and six UC Berkeley collaborators cofounded Databricks, whose software is built on top of Spark.
- He has led development on multiple new, AI-powered features beyond Spark.