Ali Ghodsi

This inventor holds 16 USPTO granted patents and 2 published patent applications. Top assignee: Databricks Inc.. Active years: 2017-2025. Education: Mid Sweden University (Sweden); KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden); University of California, Berkeley (USA).

Graduated from:

Mid Sweden University (Sweden)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
University of California, Berkeley (USA)

USPTO Granted Patents = 16 (Patent Applications = 2)

% Patents Active = 100.0

Average Co-Inventor Count = 3.3

ph-index = 11

Forward Citations = 509(Granted Patents)

Company Filing History:

16 out of 126

Databricks Inc.

patents

Years Active: 2017-2025

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16 patents (USPTO):Sort by Forward CitationsExplore Patents

1. 12277237 - Managed metastorage (2025-04-14),

2. 12182292 - Data sharing for network connected systems (2024-12-31),

3. 12147555 - Data sharing for network connected systems (2024-11-19),

4. 11948084 - Function creation for database execution of deep learning model (2024-04-02),

5. 11599783 - Function creation for database execution of deep learning model (2023-03-07),

6. 10678536 - Callable notebook for cluster execution (2020-06-09),

7. 10474736 - Multiple display views for a notebook (2019-11-12),

8. 10474501 - Serverless execution of code using cluster resources (2019-11-12),

9. 10361928 - Cluster instance management system (2019-07-23),

10. 10296329 - Callable notebook for cluster execution (2019-05-21),

11. 10095735 - System for exploring data in a database (2018-10-09),

12. 9959337 - Independent data processing environments within a big data cluster system (2018-05-01),

13. 9836302 - Callable notebook for cluster execution (2017-12-05),

14. 9769032 - Cluster instance management system (2017-09-19),

15. 9760602 - System for exploring data in a database (2017-09-12),

Ali Ghodsi didn’t set out to be Silicon Valley royalty, he just wanted to make data behave.

Born in Iran, raised in Sweden, and later a PhD computer scientist at KTH, he landed at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab, where he and a band of researchers built Apache Spark.

Spark caught fire, but companies burned out trying to use it. So in 2013, Ghodsi co-founded Databricks, wrapping Spark in enterprise-friendly packaging. As CEO, he championed the lakehouse, a place where data lakes and warehouses stop fighting over who does the dishes. Today, Databricks is worth billions, and Ghodsi is proof that geeks can, indeed, rule the cloud.