Michael Kerrisk
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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SeniorMichael Kerrisk is a seasoned UNIX/Linux systems programmer, trainer, and author with more than 25 years of experience shaping kernel-level development and documentation. Based in Munich, he runs training and consulting at man7.org, focusing on system programming, security and isolation APIs, and other low-level topics. He authored The Linux Programming Interface, widely acclaimed as the definitive Linux system programming reference, and was the Linux man-pages maintainer from 2004 to 2021. In open source, he contributes to project quality and tooling, including shell scripts for analyzing and standardizing man-pages and for adding copyright and license information. His work bridges hands-on engineering with meticulous documentation and education, translating complex Linux concepts into practical, auditable solutions.
25 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
regular-expression10
sh10
script10
shell10
documentations10
scripting10
documentation10
text-processing10
regular-expressions10
gnu9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mkerrisk/man-pages
Nov 2004 - Sep 2021
Linux man-pages
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:18793 commits, 1 PR, 1163 pushes in 17 years
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the project by creating and maintaining shell scripts used to analyze and modify the man-pages. These scripts focused on tasks such as adding parentheses to function names, finding markup errors, and correcting formatting inconsistencies. Furthermore, the user added copyright and license information to the scripts, demonstrating a focus on documentation and code quality.
man-pagesmanjarolinuxmanualluks
Distrotech/man-pages
Mar 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:597 commits in 2 years 9 months
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