Founder Profile
Andy Konwinski
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Andy Konwinski?
Andy Konwinski is a founder of Databricks, Inc., which was founded in 2013 with Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji. Andy Konwinski is a founder of Perplexity AI, Inc., which was founded in 2022 with Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho.
- Companies founded
- Databricks, Inc. and Perplexity AI, Inc.
- Founded
- 2013
- Co-founders
- Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Background
PhD from UC Berkeley where he co-created Apache Mesos and contributed heavily to Apache Spark.
Founding Story
Andy Konwinski co-founded Perplexity AI, bringing unparalleled strategic experience in scaling massive cloud and AI infrastructure companies. Having already co-founded Databricks and Anyscale, his expertise was critical in helping Perplexity navigate the intensely capital- and compute-heavy landscape of generative AI.
Education: University of California, Berkeley.
Konwinski was born on October 15, 1983. He is also a co-founder of Databricks and an early contributor to Apache Spark, and he co-founded the venture firm Laude Ventures. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).