Michael Freedman
Cofounder CTO at Princeton University
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Freedman is a seasoned technology leader, co-founder and CTO of Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB), with 13+ years building high-performance databases and operational platforms. He combines startup execution—raising significant venture capital and shipping the fastest Postgres—with deep academic roots as the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. His research spans distributed systems, storage, networking, and security, and has earned multiple top awards and long-running test-of-time recognitions. Michael remains a hands-on engineer and open-source contributor, actively improving TimescaleDB internals and Postgres integration. He brings a rare blend of academic rigor and product-driven engineering, having previously co-founded an IP geolocation company that exited and advised cryptography- and blockchain-focused startups. Based in the New York City area, he channels that breadth into building systems for real-time analytics at scale.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng., Computer Science, M.Eng., Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at New York UniversityPh.D. (Visiting), Computer Science, Ph.D. (Visiting), Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (14)
timeseries-database10
databases10
postgresql10
sql10
database10
analytics9
timescaledb9
time-series6
javascript6
psql6
influxdb6
python6
pdo6
sequelizejs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
timescale/timescaledb
Mar 2017 - May 2021
A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:43 reviews, 33 commits, 46 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the TimescaleDB database extension. Their contributions include fixing error messages related to the `drop_chunks` functionality and clarifying supported interval types. They also addressed an issue by preventing the use of both the partition number and interval length during dimension addition. Finally, they updated copyright information and added PostgreSQL license information to the project.
postgresql-extensionfinancial-analysiscomplex-queriestime-seriestsdb
mfreed/docs.timescale.com-content
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Content pages for TimescaleDB documentation
Contributions:58 pushes, 92 branches in 1 year 2 months
databasetimescaledb
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