Databricks CEO and leadership

Ali is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, responsible for the growth and international​ ​expansion of the company. He previously served as the VP of Engineering and Product​ ​Management before taking the role of CEO in January 2016. In addition to his work at Databricks, Ali serves as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and is on the board at UC Berkeley’s RiseLab. Ali was one of the creators of open source project, Apache Spark, and ideas from his academic research in the areas of resource management and scheduling and data caching have been applied to Apache Mesos​ ​and Apache Hadoop.​ ​​Ali​ ​received his MBA from Mid-Sweden University in 2003 and PhD from KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden​ in 2006​ in the area of​ ​Distributed Computing.

I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and Chief Technologist at Databricks. During my PhD, I started the Apache Spark computing engine and developed other widely used open source software such as Apache Mesos. Today, I also work on MLflow (https://mlflow.org), an open source machine learning platform from Databricks, and other areas of our product.

Reynold Xin is a computer scientist and engineer specializing in big data, distributed systems, and cloud computing. He is a co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks. He is best known for his work on Apache Spark, which is the top open-source Big Data project. He designed and lead development of the GraphX, Project Tungsten, and Structured Streaming components and he co-designed DataFrames—all of which are part of the core Apache Spark distribution—plus served as the release manager for Spark's 2.0 release.

Conte has 30 years of finance and administration experience in multi-national public and private companies within the technology industry. Conte was Splunk’s CFO for the last eight years, where he took the company public and helped it grow from $100 million in annual revenue to more than $2 billion annually as the market leader in operational intelligence and security information management. Prior to Splunk, he was the CFO at Opsware, an IT automation software company that was acquired by HP for $1.65 billion. Conte has also served as a member of the board of directors at Anaplan since 2016.

Hatim brings more than 14 years of experience building enterprise software products to Databricks. Most recently, he served as CCO & SVP of Tech Ops for AppDynamics where he ran all the customer facing and technology functions for the company. Hatim joined AppDynamics as one of the first 10 employees and was instrumental in helping the company grow from a handful of customers to a market leader worth $3.7B. Prior to AppDynamics, Hatim held several development and QA leadership positions with CA Wily and other companies working on Java / J2EE products. Hatim holds a Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California.

Ali is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, responsible for the growth and international​ ​expansion of the company. He previously served as the VP of Engineering and Product​ ​Management before taking the role of CEO in January 2016. In addition to his work at Databricks, Ali serves as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and is on the board at UC Berkeley’s RiseLab. Ali was one of the creators of open source project, Apache Spark, and ideas from his academic research in the areas of resource management and scheduling and data caching have been applied to Apache Mesos​ ​and Apache Hadoop.​ ​​Ali​ ​received his MBA from Mid-Sweden University in 2003 and PhD from KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden​ in 2006​ in the area of​ ​Distributed Computing.

I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and Chief Technologist at Databricks. During my PhD, I started the Apache Spark computing engine and developed other widely used open source software such as Apache Mesos. Today, I also work on MLflow (https://mlflow.org), an open source machine learning platform from Databricks, and other areas of our product.

Reynold Xin is a computer scientist and engineer specializing in big data, distributed systems, and cloud computing. He is a co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks. He is best known for his work on Apache Spark, which is the top open-source Big Data project. He designed and lead development of the GraphX, Project Tungsten, and Structured Streaming components and he co-designed DataFrames—all of which are part of the core Apache Spark distribution—plus served as the release manager for Spark's 2.0 release.

Ali is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, responsible for the growth and international​ ​expansion of the company. He previously served as the VP of Engineering and Product​ ​Management before taking the role of CEO in January 2016. In addition to his work at Databricks, Ali serves as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and is on the board at UC Berkeley’s RiseLab. Ali was one of the creators of open source project, Apache Spark, and ideas from his academic research in the areas of resource management and scheduling and data caching have been applied to Apache Mesos​ ​and Apache Hadoop.​ ​​Ali​ ​received his MBA from Mid-Sweden University in 2003 and PhD from KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden​ in 2006​ in the area of​ ​Distributed Computing.

I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and Chief Technologist at Databricks. During my PhD, I started the Apache Spark computing engine and developed other widely used open source software such as Apache Mesos. Today, I also work on MLflow (https://mlflow.org), an open source machine learning platform from Databricks, and other areas of our product.