Martin Krafft

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.

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 method diffusion in large open-source projects, such as Debian (see the research proposal).