HiReyAli Ghodsi
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Databricks
About
Ali Ghodsi is CEO and co-founder of Databricks and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley.
Ali was one of the creators of Apache Spark and serves on the board of UC Berkeley’s RiseLab.
Earlier roles include VP of engineering and product management at Databricks, visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, and assistant professor at KTH.
Ali holds a PhD from KTH and an MBA and MSc from Mid-Sweden University.
Experience
DatabricksChief Executive Officer and Co-Founder2016 – Present
University of California, BerkeleyAdjunct ProfessorFrom 2015
- UC Berkeley’s RiseLabBoard member
KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyAssistant Professor2008 – 2013
RISE Research Institutes of SwedenSenior Researcher2007 – 2009
Hive StreamingCo-Founder and Advisor2006 – 2011
Education
At a glance
Helped create Apache Spark
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Work
www.databricks.com · 2026-11-12
- Ali became CEO of Databricks in January 2016.
- Ali was an associate professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in January 2013.
- Ali was a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden from January 2007 to June 2009.
- Ali was co-founder and advisor at Hive Streaming from January 2006 to January 2011.
Projects
www.databricks.com · 2026-11-12
- Ali's academic research included resource management, scheduling and data caching, with ideas applied to Apache Mesos and Apache Hadoop.
Education
www2.eecs.berkeley.edu · 2026-11-12
- Ali's PhD research at KTH was in distributed computing.
Interests
www2.eecs.berkeley.edu · 2026-11-12
- Ali's research interests include distributed systems, cloud computing, big data computing and networking.
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