Thivviyan Amirthalingam is a Masters student in Computer and Information Technology (CIT) at Purdue University. He also serves as the Teaching Assistant for CNIT155, Introduction to Object Oriented Programming offered by the CIT department. His research interest revolves around the management of heterogeneous and autonomous database systems. Thivviyan is also working on a middleware design for integrating relational database and NoSQL database systems. Additionally, he is also working with Dr. John Springer in the Discovery Advancements Through Analytics (D.A.T.A.) Laboratory.