Jeff Hammerbacher

Jeff Hammerbacher (born 1982 or 1983)^[1] is a data scientist. He was chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera^[2][3] and later served on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.^[1]

Early life

Hammerbacher was born in 1982 or 1983. He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His father worked at the General Motors plant and his mother was a nurse. From an early age he had an interest in numbers.^[1]

Career

Prior to co-founding Cloudera, Hammerbacher led the data team at Facebook.^[4] Hammerbacher was an entrepreneur in residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to joining Cloudera.^[1] Hammerbacher worked as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street.^[5]

Hammerbacher has been featured for his work in Forbes,^[6] Fast Company, MIT Technology Review,^[7] Harvard Business Review,^[8] NY Times,^[1] Bloomberg BusinessWeek^[9][10] and others.^[11]

Selected publications

• Segaran, Toby; Hammerbacher, Jeff (2009). Beautiful Data: the stories behind elegant data solutions (First ed.). Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly. ISBN 9780596157111. OCLC 827947721.