He was chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera[2][3] and later served on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
His father worked at the General Motors plant and his mother was a nurse.
[1] Prior to co-founding Cloudera, Hammerbacher led the data team at Facebook.
[4] Hammerbacher was an entrepreneur in residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to joining Cloudera.
[5] Hammerbacher has been featured for his work in Forbes,[6] Fast Company, MIT Technology Review,[7] Harvard Business Review,[8] NY Times,[1] Bloomberg BusinessWeek[9][10] and others.