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Ali Ghodsi

Also Known As Ghodsi

CEO of Databricks

Education

  • PhD - KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden
  • M.B.A, Logistics and Strategic Marketing - Mid Sweden University

Overview

Ali Ghodsi is the CEO of Databricks.

He was a co-founder of Peerialism AB, a Stockholm-based company developing a peer-to-peer data transfer system. He was also an assistant professor at KTH from 2008 to 2009.

He joined UC Berkeley in 2009 as a visiting scholar and worked with Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Michael Franklin, and Matei Zaharia on research projects in distributed systems, database systems, and networking. During this period, he helped start the Apache Mesos and Apache Spark projects. He also co-invented the concept of Dominant resource fairness,in a paper that heavily influenced resource management and scheduling design in distributed systems such as Hadoop.

In 2013, he co-founded Databricks, a company that commercializes Spark, and became chief executive in 2016.

Early Life

Ali Ghodsi was born on December 1978.

Career

  • Databricks - CEO
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