Tom Alcorn

Engineering Manager at Databricks

Tom Alcorn is an accomplished Senior Software Engineer at Databricks, focusing on the Exploratory Data Analysis team since November 2022. Prior to this role, Tom founded Tensil in August 2018, a company specializing in efficient machine learning inference chips, and served as an instructor at Bradfield School of Computer Science, teaching mathematics for computer science. Additional experience includes positions as a Software Engineer at Join and Flux.io, and earlier roles as a Data Scientist at AdHarmonics, Research Assistant at Stanford University, Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and Undergraduate Researcher at MIT. Tom holds a BS in Mathematics with Computer Science and a Minor in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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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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