Karsten Wade
Head Of Developer Relations
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarsten Wade is a veteran open source leader and Head of Developer Relations who has spent two decades building and scaling developer communities, open collaboration practices, and sustainable product ecosystems. He combines deep program and people leadership—shaping policy, infrastructure, and content—with hands-on systems and operations experience from roles at Red Hat and in major projects like CentOS and Fedora. As founder of TheOpenSourceWay.org and a longtime community architect, he helps organizations reduce risk, cut costs, and unlock revenue through effective open source participation. Currently steering DevRel at an AI-native startup, he focuses on making people of all backgrounds successful as “developers in the loop” for agent-driven systems. Beyond tech, he’s a creative communicator and resourceful problem-solver who once claims he can “create awesome food from whatever is on hand,” reflecting a pragmatic, maker mindset.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
english, english at New York UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Spanish
Github Skills (93)
ovirt10
virtualization10
naming10
yaml9
community-management9
container-image9
netlify9
gatsbyjs9
podman8
oci-image8
docker8
cooperation8
container8
gatsby7
centos7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
theopensourceway/the-project
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
quaid/website
Apr 2021 - May 2023
quaid fork of website for the Inclusive Naming Initiative
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 1 month
initiativeinclusivenaming
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