# Matei Zaharia (slim)

> Matei Zaharia is creator of MLflow; co-founder and CTO of Databricks. MLflow Tracing on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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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.

## What Matei builds

- [MLflow Tracing](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mlflow-tracing.md), graded C, 61.5/100, in 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 2026-10-27.

## Questions

### Who is Matei Zaharia?

Matei Zaharia co-founded Databricks, where he is chief technology officer, and led the development of MLflow there.

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

Anchor Terminal lists MLflow Tracing from MLflow Project (LF Projects, LLC).

### 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.

## Sources

- https://mlflow.org
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlflow/mlflow/master/README.md
- https://www.databricks.com/blog/2018/06/05/introducing-mlflow-an-open-source-machine-learning-platform.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matei_Zaharia

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