Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, working on decentralised systems and cryptographic protocols. He works with the Ink & Switch research lab on local-first collaboration software, and advises the decentralised social network Bluesky. In a previous life he was a Silicon Valley software engineer and entrepreneur, cofounding and selling two startups and working on large-scale data infrastructure at LinkedIn. He is the author of the best-selling O’Reilly book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications".