# Matei Zaharia

**Source:** https://www.startuphub.ai/people/matei-zaharia
**Profile type:** Person

## About

Matei Zaharia is the Co-founder and CTO of Databricks, a company focused on unifying data analytics and AI. He is also an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Zaharia is widely recognized for his work on Apache Spark, a popular open-source big data processing engine.

## Key facts

- **Slug:** matei-zaharia
- **Website:** https:// Zaharia.stanford.edu/
- **Title:** Co-founder and CTO
- **Social:**
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matei-zaharia-71717a1
  - GitHub: https://github.com/mateiz

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