Matei Zaharia
Matei Zaharia is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist specializing in big data, distributed systems, and cloud computing. He is a co-founder and CTO of Databricks, and an assistant professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He created the Apache Spark project and co-created the Apache Mesos project during his PhD at UC Berkeley, and also designed the core scheduling algorithms used in Apache Hadoop, including the most widely used fair scheduler.
Biography
Matei Zaharia was born in Romania. His family moved to Canada later and he attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto for high school and the University of Waterloo for Computer Science. He received the Governor General’s Academic Silver Medal for highest academic standing upon graduation from the University of Waterloo. He went on to study at UC Berkeley gaining a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2013 under the supervision of Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker.
He participated in programming contests, winning two IOI silver medals in high school. He was on the University of Waterloo team that competed in ACM ICPC programming competition in 2004 and 2005. He won a gold medal in ICPC 2005 (3rd place worldwide), and placed 15th in 2004. Both times his team got a title of North America champions.
Zaharia
Zaharia is a variant form found in the Balkans of the given name Zechariah or surname Zacharias.
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