Amr Awadallah

Amr Awadallah is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Cloudera and Vectara. At Cloudera, he served as chief technology officer and helped build the company into one of the best-known commercial vendors in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.

Education

Awadallah earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Cairo University. He later completed a PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation was titled The vMatrix: A Backward-Compatible Solution for Improving the Interactivity, Scalability, and Reliability of Internet Applications. After the acquisition, he worked at Yahoo for eight years. He later became vice president of product intelligence engineering, and was associated with Yahoo's early use of Hadoop for large-scale data analysis.

In 2022, he co-founded Vectara, an artificial intelligence and search company.