HiReyAli Ghodsi
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Databricks
About
Ali Ghodsi is CEO and co-founder of Databricks, a data and AI company, and co-created Apache Spark.
Ali is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and serves on the board of its RISELab. Before becoming CEO, Ali was Databricks' VP of Engineering and Product Management. Ali holds a PhD in distributed computing from KTH and an MBA 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
- Peerialism ABCo-founder
Education
At a glance
Co-created Apache Spark
Co-invented dominant resource fairness
Co-founded Peerialism AB
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Work
www.databricks.com · 2026-11-12
- At Databricks, Ali is responsible for company growth and international expansion.
- Ali was an associate professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in January 2013.
Projects
www.databricks.com · 2026-11-12
- Ali's research on resource management, scheduling and data caching has been applied to Apache Mesos and Apache Hadoop.
- Ali helped start Apache Mesos and Apache Spark while a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
- Ali co-authored papers on Apache Mesos and Apache Spark SQL.
- Ali introduced LTAP, an architecture for transactional and analytical engines to operate on one open-format data copy, in 2026.
- Ali announced Databricks' Lakewatch cybersecurity platform in March 2026.
Education
- Ali's doctoral thesis was titled Distributed k-ary System: Algorithms for Distributed Hash Tables.
Interests
- Ali's research interests include distributed systems, cloud computing, big data computing and networking.
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