Biography:Amr Awadallah
Amr Awadallah | |
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 Awadallah in 2015 | |
| Education | Cairo University (BS, MS)[1] Stanford University (PhD)[2] |
| Occupation | 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
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]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Immigrants and Billion Dollar Startups (Report). National Foundation for American Policy. October 2018. https://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-BILLION-DOLLAR-STARTUPS.NFAP-Policy-Brief.2018-1.pdf. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Cloudera, Inc. Form S-1". 2017. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535379/000162828017003221/projectthunders-1.htm.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Balakrishnan, Anita (April 28, 2017). "Cloudera shares close more than 20% higher on Day 1 after IPO". CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/28/cloudera-ipo-nyse.html.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Elias, Jennifer (November 30, 2017). "Why Cloudera co-founder is considered CTO of an industry". Silicon Valley Business Journal. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/11/30/why-cloudera-co-founder-is-considered-cto-of-an.html.
- ↑ "Purple People". Forbes. September 1, 2003. https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0901/072.html.
- ↑ Anderson, Stuart (April 2, 2016). "Did A Ride From The Airport Lead To An Immigrant's $4 Billion Company?". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2016/04/02/did-a-ride-from-the-airport-lead-to-an-immigrants-4-billion-company/.
- ↑ Peters, Jay (July 16, 2021). "Google executive steps down after offensive manifesto about his antisemitic past". The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/16/22580042/google-amr-awadallah-anti-semitism-cloud-cloudera-leaves-manifesto.
- ↑ Conger, Kate (July 16, 2021). "Google parts ways with VP after his 10,000 word 'confession' on antisemitism". SFGATE. https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/Google-parts-ways-VP-antisemitism-LinkedIn-post-16320332.php.
- ↑ 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. https://www.businessinsider.com/vp-devrel-google-cloud-leaving-company-linkedin-blog-israel-2021-7.
- ↑ "Google separates with Cloud VP after employees complain about manifesto". CNBC. July 16, 2021. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/16/google-separates-with-cloud-vp-after-employees-complain-about-manifesto.html.
- ↑ "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.
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