Profil Financier
Matei Zaharia occupe actuellement le rang #578 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $7.0 B ($0 sur 24h).
Matei Zaharia is cofounder and chief technology officer of software startup Databricks, which private investors valued at $190 billion in August.
He is the mastermind behind popular analytics engine Apache Spark, which was conceived when he was a 24-year-old Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley.
Spark set a world record for speed of data sorting in 2014 and won Zaharia an award for the year's best computer science dissertation.
In 2013, Zaharia and six UC Berkeley collaborators cofounded Databricks, whose software is built on top of Spark.
He has led development on multiple new, AI-powered features beyond Spark.