Founder Profile
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji?
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji is a founder of Databricks, Inc., which was founded in 2013 with Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica.
- Company founded
- Databricks, Inc.
- Founded
- 2013
- Co-founders
- Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica
Background
Tavakoli-Shiraji earned a PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley, where he worked on networking and distributed systems research before joining the Spark founders in 2013.
Founding Story
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji is a Databricks co-founder who focused on the commercial side of the business, including field engineering and customer-facing roles that helped large enterprises adopt the platform in its early years. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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