Mark Burgess

Mark Burgess is the founder, CTO, and principal author of Cfengine. For the past 20 years, he has led the way in the theory and practice of automation and policy-based management. In the 1990s he underlined the importance of idempotent, autonomous desired state management (“convergence”) and formalised cooperative systems in the 2000s (“promise theory”). He is the author of numerous books and papers on Network and System Administration and has won several prizes for his work.