Reynold Xin

Reynold Xin
Alma materUC Berkeley (Ph.D.)
University of Toronto (BA.Sc.)
Known forApache Spark, Databricks
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Doctoral advisorMichael J. Franklin

Reynold Xin is a computer scientist and engineer specializing in big data, distributed systems, and cloud computing. He is a co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks. He is best known for his work on Apache Spark, a leading open-source Big Data project. He was designer and lead developer of the GraphX, Project Tungsten, and Structured Streaming components and he co-designed DataFrames, all of which are part of the core Apache Spark distribution; he also served as the release manager for Spark's 2.0 release.

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