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Reynold Xin

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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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Wednesday Keynote

2025-06-11 · Data + AI Summit 2025

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with Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase) , Kasey Uhlenhuth (Databricks) , Justin DeBrabant (Databricks) , Greg Ulrich (Mastercard) , Richard Masters (Virgin Atlantic Airways) , Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) , Reynold Xin (Databricks) , Nikita Shamgunov (Neon) , Dario Amodei (Anthropic) , Holly Smith (Databricks) , Hanlin Tang (Databricks)

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