Matei Zaharia

CTO & Cofounder at Databricks

Berkeley, California, United States

About Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia is CTO & Cofounder at Databricks. Location: Berkeley, California, United States.

I'm CTO at Databricks and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley. I started the Apache Spark computing engine during my PhD, and helped develop other widely used open source data and AI software, such as MLflow, Delta Lake, DBRX, DSPy, GEPA, MegaBlocks and ColBERT. At Berkeley, my current research covers natural language processing, databases and security, including how to build highly reliable applications with LLMs. At Databricks, I work on all areas of our product.

Skills

  • Cloud Computing
  • Networking
  • Distributed Systems

Additional experience

  • Associate Professor of Computer Science

    University of California, Berkeley

    Started July 2023

Education

  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Bachelor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo