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Co-founder and Chief Architect Databricks

Reynold Xin oversees technical contributions to Apache Spark at Databricks, including DataFrames and Project Tungsten. He led Spark’s 2014 Daytona GraySort contest, setting a world record with 30x higher per-node efficiency than Hadoop. Previously, as a PhD student at UC Berkeley AMPLab, his work focused on scalable data processing; he authored highly cited papers in SIGMOD 2011, 2013, and 2015 and won the Best Demo Award at VLDB 2011 and SIGMOD 2012.

Bio from: Databricks DATA + AI Summit 2023

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Reynold Xin is a technical co-founder and Chief Architect at Databricks. He's also a co-creator and the top contributor to the Apache Spark project. In this casual conversation with Drew Banin, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at dbt Labs, the two will be discussing the data infrastructure trends they find most interesting. Register to catch the rest of Coalesce, the Analytics Engineering Conference, at https://coalesce.getdbt.com. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is brought to you by dbt Labs.