Mark Burgess

Mark Burgess (T5, F3) is the founder, chairman, CTO, and principal author of CFEngine. In 2011 he resigned as Professor of Network and System Administration at Oslo University College, where for twenty years he led the way in theory and practice of automation and policy-based management. In the 1990s he underlined the importance of idempotent, autonomous desired state management ("convergence") and formalized cooperative systems in the 2000s ("promise theory"). He is the author of numerous books and papers on network and system administration, including the USENIX Short Topics books A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine, co-authored with Æleen Frisch, and A Sysadmin's Guide to Navigating the Business World,co-authored with Carolyn Rowland. He has won several prizes for his work.