Patrick Wendell
Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks, heading its AI efforts; Apache Spark committer
- Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Databricks1
Patrick Wendell is a co-founder of Databricks and its VP of Engineering; Databricks' Data + AI Summit 2026 speaker page says Wendell leads the company's AI efforts, including products such as Genie and Unity Gateway. Wendell is listed as a committer on the Apache Spark project's committers page, with Databricks as the organization. Wendell is also one of the bylined authors of Databricks' June 2024 post announcing the open-sourcing of Unity Catalog.124
Work
Apache Spark (external site: spark.apache.org)Open-source code
Listed as a committer on the Apache Spark committers page. The apache/spark repository is published under the Apache-2.0 license.23
Unity Catalog (external site: github.com)Open-source code
One of five bylined authors 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 repository is Apache-2.0.45
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