Summary
Karsten Olsen is a MarTech Data Specialist and serial founder with 11 years of experience turning data and product ideas into production-ready web applications and AI-driven marketing solutions. He blends full‑stack engineering (Python/FastAPI, TypeScript/Angular) with data science and ML to build features like content classification, lead enrichment, and cross-company tracking architectures. As co-founder of FORTEM Monitor and creator of The World Counts he has led product design, UX, and analytics while shipping scalable SaaS for market monitoring and social impact. His background in economics and policy (OECD, COWI) gives him a rare ability to translate complex stakeholder needs into measurable technical outcomes. Based in Copenhagen, he is currently shaping MarTech systems at DFDS and continues to apply LLMs and embeddings to practical marketing problems. An understated strength is his history of combining quantitative economics with hands-on engineering to turn analytical insight into customer-facing products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Economics, M.Sc, Economics at University of Aarhus
Denmark-America Foundation & Fulbright Commission Scholarship, Economics, Denmark-America Foundation & Fulbright Commission Scholarship, Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Danish