Martin Krafft

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Martin Felix Krafft
Martin Krafft (photograph taken 2004)
Martin Krafft (photograph taken 2004)
Born February 14, 1979
Munich, Germany
Residence Zurich, Switzerland
Nationality German
Field computer science researcher, free software developer, entrepreneur
Institution self-employed
Alma mater Swarthmore College
Academic advisor Brian Fitzgerald
Known for Debian. The Debian System

Martin Felix Krafft (b. February 14, 1979) is a prominent Debian developer (nicknamed madduck), computer science enthusiast, and freelance security and open-source consultant. He is the author of the book The Debian System [1] (ISBN 3-937514-07-4 / ISBN 1-59327-069-0), which has been translated to German, Japanese, and French. A Chinese translation is in the works, and other languages are planned.

Martin lives in Zurich, Switzerland and is working on his Ph.D. thesis with Brian Fitzgerald at Lero — the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems of the University of Limerick, Ireland. His topic is the diffusion of methods in large open-source projects, such as Debian.

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