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The Zaharia family, also known as the Zakarija, Zakaria, Zacharia or Zaccaria was an Albanian noble family, most prominent during the 14th and 15th century.
Matei Zaharia (born 1984 or 1985 [1]) is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist, educator and the creator of Apache Spark. [2][3][4] In 2022, Forbes ranked him and Ion Stoica as the 3rd- richest Romanians with a net worth of $1.6 billion.
Matei Zaharia is cofounder and chief technology officer of software startup Databricks, which private investors valued at $134 billion in February. He is the mastermind behind popular analytics ...
Matei Zaharia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure. In the prize announcement, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) noted Zaharia’s development of open-source systems helped enable large-scale machine ...
Matei Zaharia awarded ACM Prize in Computing for contributions to data ...
Zaharia’s work addressed a central challenge in computing: how to work with and rapidly analyze growing volumes of data efficiently and at a scale previously accessible only to the largest technology companies. Early distributed data systems were limited in speed and poorly suited to emerging workloads such as machine learning and interactive analysis. Through a sequence of open-source ...
Matei Zaharia is an Associate Professor of EECS at Berkeley and a Cofounder and CTO of Databricks. He started the Apache Spark open source project during his PhD at UC Berkeley in 2009, and has worked broadly on other widely used data and AI software, including Delta Lake, MLflow, Dolly and ColBERT.
Apache Spark creator and Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and argues that AGI has already arrived — just not in a form we recognise.
Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares ... - TNW
ACM has named Matei Zaharia of the University of California, Berkeley, the recipient of the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure which has enabled large-scale machine learning, analytics and AI at a global scale.