Jeff Hammerbacher

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

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.

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

Hammerbacher has been featured for his work in Forbes, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, Harvard Business Review, NY Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and others.