Frank Karlitschek (born 25 July 1973) is a German open source software developer living in Stuttgart, Germany.

"[4] Karlitschek is a KDE contributor since 2001 when he mainly worked in web community and artist team.

[6] At Akademy 2008, Karlitschek presented the vision of the Social Desktop for the KDE project.

[8] Karlitschek gives keynotes at conferences like LinuxCon,[9] Latinoware,[10] openSUSE Conf,[11] and Akademy.

[12] In 2010, Karlitschek started the ownCloud project during a CampKDE keynote[13] and released the version 1.0 in June 2010.