People
People at Databricks
11 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Databricks; 8 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-Founder
Co-founder and CEO of Databricks; one of the creators of Apache Spark and co-author of the Mesos paper
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Co-founder & SVP of Field Engineering
Co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering at Databricks
Hanlin Tang
CTO - Neural Networks
CTO of Neural Networks at Databricks; co-founder and former CTO of MosaicML
Ion Stoica
Co-founder (2013) and Executive Chairman
Co-author of the Ray and vLLM papers; UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale
Jonathan Frankle
Chief AI Scientist
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks; first author of the lottery ticket hypothesis paper; MosaicML founding team
Matei Zaharia
Co-founder and CTO
Started Apache Spark, helped develop MLflow and co-authored DSPy; UC Berkeley professor and Databricks CTO
Patrick Wendell
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering
Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks, heading its AI efforts; Apache Spark committer
Reynold Xin
Co-Founder and Chief Architect
Co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks; Apache Spark committer and first author of Shark and GraphX
Andy Konwinski
Co-founder; VP Product AI/ML (earlier role)
Co-founder of Laude, Databricks and Perplexity; co-author of the Terminal-Bench and Mesos papers
Naveen Rao
Vice President of AI (earlier role)
CEO and cofounder of Unconventional AI; founder of Nervana Systems and MosaicML; former Databricks VP of AI
Nikhil Thorat
Worked on AI quality (earlier role)
Co-creator of TensorFlow.js at Google Brain and co-founder of Lilac AI; now at Anthropic
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