Ali Ghodsi (born December 1978)[3] is a Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur[4] of Persian origin, specializing in distributed systems and big data.

[9] Ghodsi received his PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, advised by Seif Haridi.

He was a co-founder of Peerialism AB, a Stockholm-based company developing a peer-to-peer data transfer system.

He joined UC Berkeley in 2009 as a visiting scholar and worked with Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Michael Franklin, and Matei Zaharia on research projects in distributed systems, database systems, and networking.

[11] In 2013, he co-founded Databricks, a company that commercializes Spark, and became chief executive in 2016.