Tim Kaldewey received his Ph.D. for his work on “Predictable High-Performance Data Management - Leveraging System Resource Characteristics to Improve Performance and Predictability” in March 2010. His research interests revolve around large-scale data management from a parallel and real-time systems perspective. Two years ago he joined Oracle’s Special Projects Team where he is now a Senior Researcher. He previously held research and engineering positions at IBM, SAP, Lufthansa, and SAG.