Martin Kleppmann

Cambridge, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Software engineer, entrepreneur, author, speaker.

Technology / Software / Internet

Martin is a versatile software developer and entrepreneur. He is creative and thoughtful, more generalist than specialist. He enjoys: • understanding complex systems and their trade-offs, • teaching and explaining ideas through writing and speaking, • solving hard technical problems, • operating and scaling real-world production infrastructure, • recognising what customers and users want, • designing and developing usable and beautiful user interfaces. Martin cares about high quality work, getting things done, and absolute integrity. He will happily jump in and learn whatever is required to solve a problem. He has co-founded two successful startups: • Rapportive, which shows social prof...