Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and CEO of Databricks; one of the creators of Apache Spark and co-author of the Mesos paper
- CEO and Co-Founder, Databricks12
- Adjunct Professor, University of California, Berkeley1
Ali Ghodsi is the co-founder and CEO of Databricks, a role Ghodsi took in January 2016 after serving as the company's VP of Engineering and Product Management. Databricks' speaker biography describes Ghodsi as one of the creators of the open-source Apache Spark project and as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. Ghodsi co-authored the 2011 NSDI paper on Mesos, a platform for fine-grained resource sharing in the data center, written by a UC Berkeley team. Ghodsi is also among the bylined authors of Databricks' 2024 posts announcing the DBRX language model and the open-sourcing of Unity Catalog.1345
Work
Apache Spark (external site: spark.apache.org)Open-source code
Databricks' speaker biography names Ghodsi as one of the creators of the open-source Apache Spark project. The apache/spark repository is published under the Apache-2.0 license.17
Unity Catalog (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author, with Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji and Patrick Wendell, of the June 2024 Databricks post announcing that Unity Catalog was being open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license and hosted at LF AI & Data. The unitycatalog/unitycatalog repository is Apache-2.0.56
Mesos (external site: usenix.org)Published research
Co-author of "Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center" (NSDI 2011), whose eight authors are all listed at the University of California, Berkeley.3
DBRX (external site: databricks.com)
One of six bylined authors of Databricks' March 2024 post announcing DBRX, a mixture-of-experts language model built on the MegaBlocks research and open-source project.4
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