Matei Zaharia (#851)
Our group was one of the first to look at how to make it easy to work with very large data sets for people whose main interest in life is not software engineering.
- $ 5 B
- Data analytics
- Romania
- M
- 41 Years
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About Me
Matei Zaharia is cofounder and chief technology officer of software startup Databricks, which private investors valued at $134 billion in February. 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.
Achievements
Career Highlights
A snapshot of the defining milestones, leadership decisions, and breakthroughs that shaped Matei Zaharia’s rise and global influence.
Wealth Growth
Net Worth Growth Over Time
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Current Net Worth: $5.0B
(May 4, 2026)
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