Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia
Matei Zaharia in 2004.
Born1984 or 1985 (age 40–41)
EducationUC Berkeley (Ph.D.)
University of Waterloo (BMath)
Known forApache Spark
AwardsACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2014)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019)
SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUC Berkeley
Stanford University
Databricks
ThesisAn Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters (2013)
Doctoral advisorIon Stoica
Scott Shenker
Websitepeople.eecs.berkeley.edu/~matei/

Matei Zaharia (born 1984 or 1985) is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist, educator and the creator of Apache Spark.

As of 2024, Forbes ranked him and Ion Stoica as the 3rd-richest Romanians with a net worth of $2.7 billion.