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  "markdown": "Creator of MLflow; co-founder and CTO, Databricks.\n\nMatei 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.\n\n## What Matei builds\n\n- [MLflow Tracing](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mlflow-tracing.md), graded C, 61.5/100, in Agent observability \u0026 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 2026-10-27.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Matei Zaharia?\n\nMatei 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.\n\n### What does MLflow Project (LF Projects, LLC) make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### How are Matei's tools graded?\n\nMLflow Tracing is graded C, 61.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://mlflow.org\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlflow/mlflow/master/README.md\n- https://www.databricks.com/blog/2018/06/05/introducing-mlflow-an-open-source-machine-learning-platform.html\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matei_Zaharia\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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