Founder Profile
Scott Shenker
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Scott Shenker?
Scott Shenker is a founder of Databricks, Inc., which was founded in 2013 with Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji.
- Company founded
- Databricks, Inc.
- Founded
- 2013
- Co-founders
- Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Background
Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and founding director of the AMPLab.
Founding Story
Scott Shenker (born 1956) is a highly cited computer networking researcher. As a co-founder of Databricks and Nicira (acquired by VMware), his academic lab at Berkeley served as the incubator for the foundational distributed computing technologies that power the company. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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