Karsten Becker
Senior Key Expert at Siemens
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKarsten Becker is a Senior Key Expert in Berlin with 12 years of hands-on experience building embedded systems and real-time industrial edge Kubernetes applications. He combines deep low-level expertise in processors, FPGAs, OSes and PCB-coordinated hardware design with systems architecture experience gained as CTO and Head of Electronics for Planetary Transportation Systems, where he led development of the ALINA spacecraft. Karsten blends research rigor—having pursued FPGA-focused PhD work—with pragmatic product delivery across startups and large engineering organizations like Siemens and FERCHAU. Known for representing technical programs publicly, he’s comfortable bridging media-facing roles and detailed engineering leadership. His career shows a rare mix of space-grade embedded systems know-how and modern edge/cloud-native deployment experience.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of applied science HamburgMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Design and implementation of ICT products and systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Design and implementation of ICT products and systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) FPGA Architectures, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) FPGA Architectures at TU Hamburg
English
Github Skills (24)
metrics-server8
redis-client8
cpu-monitoring8
prometheus-exporter8
collectd8
snmp8
daemon8
amqp-client8
statistics7
openframeworks7
latency7
rrdtool7
linux6
monitoring6
golang5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
loadavg/loadavg
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 294 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 2 months
analyticsgrafanaprometheusmetricsmonitoring
loadavg/loadavgd
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes in 2 months
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