Databricks, the Data and AI company, has announced the appointment of veteran technologist Vinod Marur as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Marur will lead the global engineering team at Databricks, helping the company accelerate innovation and continue to scale the Databricks Lakehouse platform for exponential growth.
Marur brings decades of enterprise technology experience to the new role at Databricks, including a nearly 15-year tenure holding senior leadership positions at Google. During this time, Marur led engineering teams for business units like Search and Payments, comprising a large-scale billing platform, as well as consumer experiences such as Google Pay and Search Ads.
“I am thrilled to be joining Databricks at such an exciting point in the company’s trajectory,” said Marur. “Opportunities to build a platform with this impact potential only come along so often. The work Databricks is doing to pioneer the lakehouse platform across the industry is a true reflection of the innovation factory that it is and will continue to be. I am honored to be part of the journey with this team.”
“Vinod’s innovative, problem-solving spirit and enthusiasm for developer platforms is an incredible fit for Databricks and we are excited to be welcoming him to the team,” said Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-Founder of Databricks. “His extensive experience leading some of the industry’s most dynamic engineering teams brings a wealth of knowledge that will allow us to continue innovating rapidly at an even greater scale.”
Databricks has recently raised $1 billion at a $28 billion valuation, set to help the company scale as it builds an open, modern lakehouse cloud platform that can support all data-driven use cases, from BI to AI.
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