Founder Profile
Patrick Wendell
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Patrick Wendell?
Patrick Wendell is a founder of Databricks, Inc., which was founded in 2013 with Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji.
- Company founded
- Databricks, Inc.
- Founded
- 2013
- Co-founders
- Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Background
Founding Committer and PMC member of Apache Spark at UC Berkeley.
Founding Story
Patrick Wendell co-founded Databricks in 2013. He has held various vice president roles in engineering, directly managing the development teams responsible for the core Databricks runtime environment and its enterprise integrations. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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