Draft:Amr Awadallah
Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur
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Amr Awadallah is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Cloudera and Vectara. At Cloudera, he served as chief technology officer and helped build the company into one of the best-known commercial vendors in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.[3][4][5]
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Amr Awadallah | |
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| Education | Cairo University (BS, MS)[1] Stanford University (PhD)[2] |
| Occupations | Computer scientist, entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-founding Cloudera and Vectara |
Education
Awadallah earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Cairo University. He later completed a PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation was titled The vMatrix: A Backward-Compatible Solution for Improving the Interactivity, Scalability, and Reliability of Internet Applications.[1][2]
Career
Awadallah co-founded VivaSmart, an e-commerce content management and product-search startup that was acquired by Yahoo in 2000.[6] After the acquisition, he worked at Yahoo for eight years.[7] He later became vice president of product intelligence engineering, and was associated with Yahoo's early use of Hadoop for large-scale data analysis.[1]
In 2008, Awadallah co-founded Cloudera with Christophe Bisciglia, Jeff Hammerbacher, and Mike Olson.[3][4] As chief technology officer, he was part of the leadership team that helped commercialize Hadoop-based enterprise data platforms. Cloudera became a public company in 2017.[3][4][5]
Awadallah later served as vice president of developer relations at Google Cloud. In July 2021, Google parted ways with him after internal criticism over a LinkedIn post in which he discussed his past antisemitic beliefs and views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[8][9][10][11]
In 2022, he co-founded Vectara, an artificial intelligence and search company.[12]