Michael Freedman

Mike Freedman is the co-founder and CTO of Tiger Data, as well as the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.Tiger Data is building the fastest PostgreSQL database cloud for demanding applications and the physical world, supercharging real-time analytics, intelligence (AI), and transactional workloads. Thousands of global customers, $180M raised from leading VCs. Hiring globally @ timescale.com/careersMike's work broadly focuses on distributed systems, storage systems, networking, and security. He developed CoralCDN (millions of daily users), Ethane (the basis for OpenFlow / software-defined networking), and CONIKS cryptographic key transparency (used by iMessage and WhatsApp). He previously co-founded Illuminics Systems (acquired by Quova/Neustar) and technically advised Stacks/Hiro (STX, Bitcoin smart contracts).Honors include the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, ACM Fellow, Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), Sloan Fellow, and DARPA CSSG Member. Prior to joining Princeton in 2007, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from NYU's Courant Institute and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT.