A researcher, software developer, entrepreneur, and author of the bestselling O'Reilly book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications".

Martin is currently working to start a research group on local-first software, at Munich, Germany. Previously, he was a software engineer and entrepreneur, co-founding and selling two startups, and working on large-scale data infrastructure at LinkedIn. He is also passionate about training, sharing knowledge and giving consultations to several software startups, advising on "big data"-related technologies and application architecture.

Topic focus: Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) & Automerge