Kirtikumar Deshpande currently works as a Senior Principal Consultant in the Advanced Technology Solutions group at Oracle Corporation. He has more than 28 years of experience in the Information Technology field, including more than 15 years with Oracle. He co-authored Oracle Performance Tuning 101 and Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Tuning & Diagnostics published by Oracle Press. For the latter, he and his co-authors were selected Oracle Magazine's "Editors' Choice Award - Author of The Year" in 2005. He is a frequent speaker at various Oracle User Group conferences worldwide.
