Amr Awadallah
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Amr Awadallah during Cloudera Cares, DataKind Meetup on 7 May 2015
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| Born | 1 October 1970 |
| Residence | Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | Egyptian, American |
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Cairo University (B.S) Cairo University (M.S) Stanford University (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Title | CTO of Cloudera Inc. |
| Parent(s) | Awadallah Sr. |
| Website | Amr A. Awadallah |
Amr Awadallah (born October 1, 1970) is an Egyptian-born American computer scientist, Silicon Valley entrepreneur known for running one of the very first organizations to use Apache Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence while at Yahoo! and co-founding Cloudera Inc., a Palo Alto-based company providing tools, services, and support around Apache Hadoop. Now, Amr serves as CTO at Cloudera Inc. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, VivaSmart, in July, 2000.
Amr Awadallah is a Founder at Cloudera Inc serving as its Chief Technology Officer. He received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007. Before co-founding Cloudera in 2008, Amr was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners. Prior to joining Accel Partners, he served as Vice President of Product Intelligence Engineering at Yahoo!, and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence. Amr joined Yahoo! after they acquired his first startup, VivaSmart, in July 2000.
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