Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and CEO, Databricks
Spark out of a research lab and into every data platform
Rating
81Impact score
Domains
Data platformsDistributed computingAI
Scouting report
One of the Berkeley AMPLab researchers behind Apache Spark, which replaced MapReduce as the default way to process large datasets, and CEO of Databricks since 2016. The company has kept releasing the substrate rather than hoarding it: Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog and the Dolly models were all open-sourced, and it bought MosaicML and Tabular to keep the open table format from fragmenting.
Curator’s note
A professor who turned the lab’s output into a platform without closing the source.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Ali Ghodsi by Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, licensed CC BY 2.0.
Sources
- 01Ali Ghodsi en.wikipedia.org
- 02Apache Spark en.wikipedia.org
- 03Delta Lake delta.io