A “Geek from Egypt” built Billion Dollar Data Company
Amr Awadallah, an American computer scientist of Egyptian descent is a pioneer in the usage of Apache Hadoop for the analysis of data.
Amr has a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Amr Awadallah worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners before joining Cloudera.
In 2008, Amr Awadallah, Christophe Bisciglia, Jeff Hammerbacher, and Mike Olson together established Cloudera, Inc.
Cloudera offers the Data Platform which is a set of cloud computing and data processing-related technologies.
Cloudera, Inc. offers enterprise data management tools that heavily rely on Apache Hadoop.
Several of the solutions are delivered through publicly accessible cloud servers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, whereas others are subscriber-only private cloud services.
These products are marketed by Cloudera for use in data analysis and machine learning.
Today, Cloudera has a valuation of more than US$4 billion.