![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/martin_kleppman.jpg?itok=pTl8PbG_)
Speaker: Martin Kleppmann
Software Engineer, Author, & Samza and Avro Committer
Martin Kleppmann is a distributed systems researcher at the University of Cambridge, and author of the acclaimed O'Reilly book Designing Data-Intensive Applications (http://dataintensive.net/). Previously he was a software engineer and entrepreneur, co-founding and selling two startups, and working on large-scale data infrastructure at LinkedIn.