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Venture with Grace

Michael Freedman, CTO at Timescale: PostgreSQL & Real-Time Analytics

Feb 16, 2025
01:06:06

Mike Freedman is the co-founder and CTO of Timescale, as well as the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.Timescale is building the PostgreSQL database cloud for modern applications, 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 (a decentralized content distribution network serving millions of daily users) and Ethane (which formed the basis for the OpenFlow / software-defined networking architecture). He co-founded Illuminics Systems around IP geolocation and intelligence, which was acquired by Quova (now part of Neustar). Mike is also a technical advisor to Stacks/Hiro, building a more decentralized Internet leveraging the blockchain.Honors include the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, ACM Fellow, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, given by President Obama). 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.Topics:

  • Academic to entrepreneur journey
  • Distributed systems evolution
  • How AI is changing database requirements and architecture

#TimescaleDB#PostgreSQL#DatabaseInnovation#RealTimeAnalytics

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