Michael Jay Franklin[1] is an American software entrepreneur and computer scientist specializing in distributed and streaming database technology.
Under his direction, AMPLab projects such as Spark and Mesos had wide industrial and academic impact.
[7] He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993 under with his thesis Caching and memory management in client-server database systems under Michael James Carey.
[1] He was also a cofounder as well as CTO of Truviso, a company specializing in streaming databases which was acquired by Cisco in May 2012.
He is also an advisor to Databricks, a big data company commercializing the Spark research project.