Patrick Wendell ’11, co-founder and vice president of engineering at Databricks, will join Jen Rexford ’91, chair of Princeton’s Department of Computer Science, in a conversation about his entrepreneurial journey from computer science major at Princeton to co-founder of a pioneering company used by businesses around the world to manage and analyze their data.

Wendell is a founding Committer and Project Management Committee member of Apache Spark. He has acted as release manager within the Spark project for several releases, in addition to maintaining several subsystems of Spark’s core engine. At Databricks, Wendell directs the company’s engineering efforts.

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