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Ali Ghodsi

Iranian-Swedish computer scientist

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Updated 2026-08-21

Ali Ghodsi is a 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. He coauthored several influential papers, including Apache Mesos and Apache Spark SQL.

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