Andy Konwinski
Co-founder of Laude, Databricks and Perplexity; co-author of the Terminal-Bench and Mesos papers
- Co-founder, MoTS, Board; Laude Ventures Co-founder and GP, Laude Institute and Laude Ventures21
- Teaches the PhD seminar Research to Startups in the computer science department, University of California, Berkeley1
Andy Konwinski co-founded Laude (Institute and Ventures), Databricks and Perplexity, and teaches a PhD seminar called Research to Startups in UC Berkeley's computer science department. At Databricks, Konwinski was VP Product AI/ML, created the Data + AI Summit and co-authored the O'Reilly book Learning Spark; at Perplexity, Konwinski was the founding President. Konwinski's site says that during PhD studies at UC Berkeley Konwinski co-created Mesos and was part of the team that created Spark, and the Apache Spark committers page lists Konwinski as a committer. Laude co-created the Terminal-Bench benchmark with Ludwig Schmidt's group at Stanford, and Konwinski is a co-author of the Terminal-Bench paper.12467
Work
Terminal-BenchPublished research
Co-author of "Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces" (2026). Konwinski's site says Laude co-created Terminal-Bench and the Harbor framework with Ludwig Schmidt's group at Stanford, and Laude's site lists Konwinski on the Terminal-Bench team.712
Mesos (external site: usenix.org)Published research
Co-author of "Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center" (NSDI 2011); Konwinski's site says Konwinski co-created Mesos during graduate school.61
Apache Spark (external site: spark.apache.org)Open-source code
Listed as a committer on the Apache Spark committers page. Konwinski's site says Konwinski was part of the team that created Spark and co-authored the O'Reilly book Learning Spark. The apache/spark repository is Apache-2.0.415
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Co-founder and founding President, Perplexity13
- Co-founder; VP Product AI/ML, Databricks1
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