Patrick Wendell

Co-Founder & VP, Engineering at Databricks

Patrick is a founding Committer and PMC member of Apache Spark. Patrick has acted as release manager within the Spark project for several releases, in addition to maintaining several subsystems of Spark’s core engine. At Databricks, Patrick directs the company’s engineering efforts. Patrick holds an M.S. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where his research focused on low latency scheduling for large scale analytics workloads. He holds a B.S.E in Computer Science from Princeton University.

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Databricks

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With origins in academia and the open source community, Databricks was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. As the world’s first and only lakehouse platform in the cloud, Databricks combines the best of data warehouses and data lakes to offer an open and unified platform for data and AI.


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