Founder Profile
Reynold Xin
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Reynold Xin?
Reynold Xin is a founder of Databricks, Inc., which was founded in 2013 with Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji.
- Company founded
- Databricks, Inc.
- Founded
- 2013
- Co-founders
- Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Background
Computer scientist and core contributor to Apache Spark during his time at UC Berkeley.
Founding Story
Reynold Xin co-founded Databricks in 2013. He has served as the company's Chief Architect, heavily influencing the technical design of the Databricks Lakehouse platform and leading the engineering organization scaling the underlying distributed computing infrastructure.
Education: University of Toronto; University of California, Berkeley.
Xin is chief architect of Databricks. On Apache Spark he was designer and lead developer of the GraphX, Project Tungsten and Structured Streaming components, and co-designed DataFrames. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).