Founder of a listed tool

Matei Zaharia

Creator of MLflow; co-founder and CTO, Databricks, named behind the MLflow Tracing listing on Anchor Terminal.

Creator of MLflow; co-founder and CTO, Databricks

Matei Zaharia co-founded Databricks, where he is chief technology officer, and led the development of MLflow there. He created Apache Spark at UC Berkeley's AMPLab in 2009 and has taught computer science at MIT and Stanford.

What Matei builds

  • MLflow Tracing C · Agent observability & evals

    Open-source tracing, evaluation and prompt management for LLM applications and agents, part of MLflow, a Linux Foundation project. Owners run the server themselves, and agents read and annotate traces through an experimental MCP server or the mlflow traces CLI.

    Creator of MLflow; co-founder and CTO, Databricks, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Matei Zaharia?

Matei Zaharia co-founded Databricks, where he is chief technology officer, and led the development of MLflow there. He created Apache Spark at UC Berkeley's AMPLab in 2009 and has taught computer science at MIT and Stanford.

What does MLflow Project (LF Projects, LLC) make?

Anchor Terminal lists MLflow Tracing from MLflow Project (LF Projects, LLC). Open-source tracing, evaluation and prompt management for LLM applications and agents, part of MLflow, a Linux Foundation project. Owners run the server themselves, and agents read and annotate traces through an experimental MCP server or the mlflow traces CLI.

How are Matei's tools graded?

MLflow Tracing is graded C, 61.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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