Matei zaharia biography

Romanian-Canadian computer scientist and engineer

Matei Zaharia (born 1984 or 1985^[1]) is a Romanian-Canadiancomputer scientist, educator and the creator of Apache Spark.^[2][3][4]

As of April 2022, Forbes ranked him and Ion Stoica as the 3rd-richest people in Romania with a net worth of $1.6 billion.^[5]

Biography

Zaharia graduated from secondary school at Jarvis Collegiate Institute before moving to become an undergraduate at the University of Waterloo.^[6] Zaharia was a gold medalist at the International Collegiate Programming Contest, where his team University of Waterloo placed fourth in the world and first in North America in 2005.^[7] During his undergraduate degree at the University of Waterloo, he also greatly contributed to water rendering physics in the now open-source game called 0 A.D.^[8] He also helped mod the Age of Mythology scenario called Norse Wars, which