Patrick Wendell

Patrick is a co-founder of Databricks. At Databricks, Patrick leads the company’s AI efforts, including products like Genie and Unity Gateway as well as partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Grok. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where his research focused on optimizing large scale analytics workloads. He holds a B.S.E in Computer Science from Princeton University, graduating Summa Cum Laude.