A li Ghodsi is an Iranian-Swedish computer scientist and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Databricks. Databricks is a highly successful software company that commercializes the open-source big data processing framework, Apache Spark. Ghodsi was one of the original creators of Spark during his time as a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley's AMPLab.

Recognizing the commercial potential of their creation, Ghodsi and the other Spark creators co-founded Databricks in 2013. The company provides a unified analytics platform that helps businesses manage and analyze massive amounts of data and build artificial intelligence models. As CEO, Ghodsi has led the company through a period of explosive growth, attracting thousands of major corporate clients and securing billions in funding from top venture capital firms. Databricks has become one of the most valuable private software companies in the world, positioning Ghodsi as a leading figure in the big data and AI industry.