Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia (#844)

Global Rank #844
Country Rank #1
Country Romania

Our group was one of the first to look at how to make it easy to work with very large data sets for people whose main interest in life is not software engineering.

  • $ 5 B
  • Data analytics
  • Romania
  • M
  • 41 Years

Snapshot

Quick Facts

Global Rank #844
Country Rank #1
Net Worth $5.0B
Previous Worth $5.0B
Worth Change +$0.0B
Country Romania
Industry Data analytics
Age 41 Years
Gender M
Worth As Of May 4, 2026
Residence Berkeley, California
Citizenship Romania
World Billionaires List Romania Billionaires Data analytics

Profile Data

Personal Stats

Age 41
Source Of Wealth Data analytics, Self Made
Residence Berkeley, California
Citizenship Romania
Education Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley; Bachelor of Science, University of Waterloo
Net Worth Change +$0.0B +0.0% from previous worth
Previous Net Worth $5.0B
Current Net Worth $5.0B

Worth as of May 4, 2026

About Me

Matei Zaharia is cofounder and chief technology officer of software startup Databricks, which private investors valued at $134 billion in February. He is the mastermind behind popular analytics engine Apache Spark, which was conceived when he was a 24-year-old Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. Spark set a world record for speed of data sorting in 2014 and won Zaharia an award for the year's best computer science dissertation. In 2013, Zaharia and six UC Berkeley collaborators cofounded Databricks, whose software is built on top of Spark. He has led development on multiple new, AI-powered features beyond Spark.

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#852
Billionaires (2026)

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Net Worth Growth Over Time

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Current Net Worth: $5.0B (May 4, 2026)

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