Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and CEO of Databricks and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley; a computer scientist in distributed systems who co-authored the Apache Mesos and Spark SQL papers.
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x.com @alighodsi Occasional posts, mostly about Databricks and AI
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