Mik Kersten, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mik Kersten

Polish computer scientist

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1975

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: Canada, Poland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Mik Kersten is a Canadian computer specialist who created and leads the open-source Eclipse Mylyn project.
Kersten invented the Task-Focused Interface technology underlying Mylyn while working on his PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
While completing his PhD, Kersten and his PhD supervisor, Gail C.
Murphy, founded Tasktop Technologies, which provided productivity software built on the Mylyn technology, but now focuses on providing software around Mik's book Project to Product.