Martin Kleppmann

Bio

Martin Kleppmann is an associate professor at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he lectures on distributed systems and cryptographic protocols. The first edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications in 2017 established him as an authority on data systems, and through his research on distributed systems he helped start the local-first software movement. Previously he was a software engineer and entrepreneur at internet companies including LinkedIn and Rapportive, where he worked on large-scale data infrastructure.