Matei Zaharia
$5.03B
as of 09/03/26
About Matei Zaharia
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.
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RomaniaSource of wealth
Data analyticsResidence
Berkeley, CaliforniaBirth date
04/21/85 (age 41)Education
Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley; Bachelor of Science, University of WaterlooSelf-made
self-madeMatei Zaharia’s fortune is worth
84K
troy ounces of gold
77K
median U.S. household
50K
median U.S. income
0.101%
U.S. credit card volume
0.02%
GDP of the United States
0.015%
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