Ginger Gilsdorf is a software engineer at Intel, focusing on enabling database and analytics software vendors to run best on Intel Data Center platforms. Her experience with persistent memory includes investigating possible use cases, developing software that takes advantage of persistence, and optimizing for performance. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and is working on an M.S. in Computer Science with a specialty in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech. She holds two U.S. patents in memory and storage technologies.