Michael J. Freedman is the Robert E. Kahn Professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. Freedman is also the co-founder and CTO of Tiger Data, the fastest PostgreSQL for demanding applications. His work has broadly focused on distributed systems, storage systems, networking, and security. 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.