Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji

Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji is the SVP of Field Engineering at Databricks, which he co-founded in 2013. Prior to joining Databricks, Arsalan was an Associate Principal at McKinsey and Company, where he advised enterprises, vendors, and the public sector on a broad spectrum of strategic topics, including next-generation IT, cloud computing, and big initiatives as well as general IT and corporate strategy. Arsalan received a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley in the area of Networking and Distributed Systems and a B.Eng from the University of Virginia.