Today’s Top Talent Pools

Databricks is reportedly considering a new funding round that could value the data + AI lakehouse platform at $165–175 billion, per The Information. The company's annualized revenue run rate exceeded $5.4B (up 65% YoY) as of its last $5B raise at $134B in February.

  1. Clemens Mewald in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Director of PM, ML & DS @ Databricks (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CEO @ Brain Co ($30M from Elad Gil), Head of Product @ Instabase, PM Lead of ML @ Google AI & Brain, MIT MBA

    3. Description: Left Brain Co on 1/26. "Something new"

  2. Rajkumar Sen in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineer @ Databricks (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CTO & Founder @ Arcion Labs ($18M from Bessemer —> acq by Databricks), Sr Director of Engineering @ MemSQL

    3. Description: "Unemployed" since 2/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  3. Robert Khoury in SF (Co-Founder & CTO @ Amdahl)

    1. Role: SWE (built Genie, scaled DBSQL $300M+ ARR) @ Databricks (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Fellow @ Menlo Ventures, Co-Founder & CTO @ Intent, SWE @ Samsara, SWE @ Uber, UC Berkeley BS CS

    3. Description: "Data infrastructure for AI-native sales & marketing teams"

    4. Funding: a16z Speedrun

  4. Ajay Saini in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Sr Engineering Manager @ Databricks (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Early Eng @ MosaicML ($18M from Radical Ventures —> acquired by Databricks for $1.3B), SWE @ Rubrik, MIT MEng + BS CS

    3. Description: "Building" since 3/26

  5. Sean O'Bannon in SF (Co-Founder @ Cranston AI)

    1. Role: ML @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ ReMatter ($20M from Founders Fund, Index Ventures), Stanford MS + BS CS

    3. Description: "A new kind of accounting company"

  6. Daniel King in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Staff ML Engineer @ Databricks (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Early Engineer @ MosaicML ($18M from Radical Ventures —> acquired by Databricks for $1.3B), Applied Research Scientist @ AI2

    3. Description: On career break since 8/25

  7. Brandon Weng in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Fluid Inference)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding SWE @ BREVIAN ($9M from Felicis), SWE @ Cash App, UWaterloo CS

    3. Description: "We're an applied AI research lab building small, personalized models. If we derive from an open-source model, it stays open source."

  8. Daniel Katz in NYC (Co-Founder @ Rehearsals)

    1. Role: MosaicML Intern @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CTO @ Brutus AI (acq by Forta, backed by Pear VC), AI + Eng @ Microsoft

    3. Description: "Rehearsals creates digital twins of real people and runs simulations for any marketing decisions with 91% accuracy."

  9. Chelsea Ip in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sr Data & AI Architect @ Databricks (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CEO @ Talia AI ($1.8M+ raised), Solutions Architect II @ AWS, Georgia Tech MS AI/ML

    3. Description: Left Talia AI on 6/26 - "Exploring Something New"

  10. Rithvik Chuppala in SF (Co-Founder & CTO @ Clodo)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Quant Developer @ Citadel, SWE @ Verkada, SWE @ Google, SWE/HW Eng @ NVIDIA, UC Berkeley MS+BS EECS

    3. Description: "Frontier people discovery"

    4. Funding: YCS25

  11. Mahit Namburu in SF (Co-Founder @ Probe)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML @ Together AI, Fellow @ Chemistry, ML @ Apple, SWE @ AWS, Berkeley EECS

    3. Description: "Probe is building towards a world where every bug is resolved in seconds. Right now, we're a company brain for engineers, helping solve the problem of accountability and intent. We are giving every agent the context to act like your engineers already do, helping teams with different workflows: on-call, feature development, and code reviews."

    4. Funding: YC P26

    5. Contact: [email protected]

  12. Zongheng Yang in SF (Founder @ SkyPilot)

    1. Role: SWE Intern @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SkyPilot creator, Postdoc & PhD @ UC Berkeley, SWE @ Google Brain

    3. Description: Stealth since 2024

    4. Contact: Site

  13. Zi Dong in SF (Founder @ Nen)

    1. Role: Sr Engineering Manager @ Databricks (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: EM @ Samsara, Stanford MS + BS

    3. Description: "Useful computer use agents"

  14. Mihir Kachroo in NYC (Co-Founder @ Tile Labs)

    1. Role: SWE Intern @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: MTS @ OpenAI, SWE Intern @ Meta, UWaterloo

    3. Description: "Our goal is to make agents solving real-world problems safe and reliable."

    4. Contact: Site

  15. George Pantazis in US (Stealth)

    1. Role: Staff SWE @ Databricks (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Thumbtack

    3. Description: "Working on code that makes it easier to code."

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