Michael Kerrisk is programmer and trainer and is the author of the acclaimed book, "The Linux Programming Interface" (http://man7.org/tlpi/), a guide and reference for system programming on Linux and UNIX. He contributes to the Linux kernel primarily via documentation, review, and testing of new kernel-user-space interfaces. He has contributed to the Linux man-pages project (http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/) since 2000, and been the project maintainer since 2004. Originally from Christchurch, Michael now lives in Munich, Germany.