Reynold Xin

Reynold Xin
Alma materUC Berkeley (Ph.D.)
University of Toronto (BA.Sc.)
Known forApache Spark, Databricks
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Doctoral advisorMichael J. Franklin

Reynold Xin is a computer scientist and engineer specializing in big data, distributed systems, and cloud computing. He is a co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks.[1] He is best known for his work on Apache Spark, a leading open-source Big Data project.[2] He was designer and lead developer of the GraphX, Project Tungsten, and Structured Streaming components and he co-designed DataFrames, all of which are part of the core Apache Spark distribution; he also served as the release manager for Spark's 2.0 release.[3]

  1. ^ "Reynold Xin: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". bloomberg.com. Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  2. ^ Woodie, Alex (8 June 2016). "Apache Spark Adoption by the Numbers". datanami.com. Tabor Communications. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Apache Spark Developers List - [ANNOUNCE] Announcing Apache Spark 2.0.0". apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com. Retrieved 2016-08-04.