Primary Job Title CTO & Co-Founder Primary Organization Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB)
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Mike is the cofounder and CTO at Timescale, building the advanced Postgres database platform for modern applications, including for time-series, real-time analytics, transactional, vector, and AI workloads. Timescale serves thousands of customers globally and has raised more than $180 million from top VC investors (NEA, Benchmark, Redpoint, Tiger
Global, and others).
Mike is also Robert E. Kahn Professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, where his research broadly focuses on distributed systems, networking, and security.
Previous work 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). He was also a technical advisor to Blockstack (token: STX), building a more decentralized Internet leveraging the blockchain.
Honors include the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, ACM Fellow, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, given by President Obama), SIGCOMM, ICFP, and TCC Test of Time Awards, Caspar Bowden Award for Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, DARPA Computer Science Study Group membership, and multiple award publications. 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.
