Matei Zaharia
$5.0B
Born
Apr 21, 1985
Age
41
Source of Wealth
Data analytics
Residence
Berkeley, California
Citizenship
Romania
Marital Status
Children
0
Education
Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley; Bachelor of Science, University of Waterloo
- 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.
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