Ali Ghodsi
Swedish computer scientist
Ali Ghodsi (born 1978) is an Iranian-Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, specializing in distributed systems, big data and data management. He is a co-founder and CEO of Databricks and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley.2
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Born 1978.1
About
He co-authored several influential papers, including Apache Mesos and Apache Spark SQL. Ghodsi holds a PhD in computer science.
Ghodsi was a co-founder of Peerialism AB, a Stockholm-based company developing a peer-to-peer data transfer system. From 2008 to 2009, Ghodis was an assistant professor at KTH.
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.
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Companies
- DatabricksChief executive officer 2013 to now3
- DatabricksFounder3
In the news
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- Oura delays IPO citing ‘uncertainty’Semafor, center, Sep 29, 2026…boats; this one is creating haves and have-nots. “I just think this is a terrible year to go public,” Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi said this summer.
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