Thomas Hubregtsen (Tom) received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Avans Hogeschool, Breda, Netherlands in 2009 and his M.S. degree from Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands in 2015. While completing his Bachelor's degree, he performed two internships. In 2007 he digitized the simulators used for ABB's internal University department. In 2009 he implemented a real-time de-interlacer for 1080i to 1080p conversion for Axon Digital Design. During his master's he performed three more internships. For Shell, he investigated the use of GPU computing to identify layers in oil fields in 2013. In the same year, he set up a network simulation environment for the Computer Science and Engineering research group at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2014 he performed the research required for his master's degree at IBM Research in Austin, under the supervision of H. Peter Hofstee, focusing on storage systems in big data, and in particular leveraging IBM's Coherently Attached Processor Interface (CAPI) connected Flash system for Apache Spark. He currently continues his research on Spark and CAPI connected flash at IBM Research, and plans to start his PhD this year.