Amr Awadallah
Amr Awadallah | |
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 Awadallah in 2015 | |
| Education | Cairo University (BS, MS)[1] Stanford University (PhD)[2] |
| Occupations | Computer scientist, entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-founding Cloudera and Vectara |
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]
Education
[edit]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
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Immigrants and Billion Dollar Startups (PDF) (Report). National Foundation for American Policy. October 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- 1 2 Awadallah, Amr A. (2007). The vMatrix: A Backward-Compatible Solution for Improving the Interactivity, Scalability, and Reliability of Internet Applications (PDF) (Thesis). Stanford University. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Cloudera, Inc. Form S-1". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- 1 2 3 Balakrishnan, Anita (April 28, 2017). "Cloudera shares close more than 20% higher on Day 1 after IPO". CNBC. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- 1 2 Elias, Jennifer (November 30, 2017). "Why Cloudera co-founder is considered CTO of an industry". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved April 9, 2026.
- ↑ "Purple People". Forbes. September 1, 2003. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- ↑ Anderson, Stuart (April 2, 2016). "Did A Ride From The Airport Lead To An Immigrant's $4 Billion Company?". Forbes. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- ↑ Peters, Jay (July 16, 2021). "Google executive steps down after offensive manifesto about his antisemitic past". The Verge. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- ↑ Conger, Kate (July 16, 2021). "Google parts ways with VP after his 10,000 word 'confession' on antisemitism". SFGATE. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- ↑ Robison, Kylie (July 16, 2021). "Google Cloud's VP of developer relations is leaving the company after his 10,000-word LinkedIn post about Israel sparked an internal backlash". Business Insider. Retrieved April 8, 2026.
- ↑ "Google separates with Cloud VP after employees complain about manifesto". CNBC. July 16, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2026.
- ↑ "Vectara, a New Leader in Applied Large Language Models, Launches its First Neural Search-as-a-Service Offering to Transform Content Discovery" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. October 12, 2022. Retrieved April 5, 2026.