Sebastian Kersten
Co-founder And Treasurer at Stichting Saarein | Saarein Foundation
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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SeniorSebastian Kersten is an activist entrepreneur and builder with a decade-plus track record of founding and scaling mission-driven media, design, and publishing ventures from Amsterdam. He co-founded influential projects such as De Correspondent and The Correspondent, led technical and operational transformations as CTO/COO, and now runs The Social Code and This is us Books to advance ethical technology and inclusive representation. A longtime co-owner and advisor at design studio Momkai, he blends product, design and technical fluency with fundraising savvy—helping set world-record crowdfunds for journalism and cultural projects. His work consistently centers feminist and queer entrepreneurship, most recently protecting Amsterdam’s historic queer café Saarein via a €275k+ community campaign and foundation. Notably, he pairs hands-on development experience from early CMS and hardware projects with strategic governance roles that prioritize privacy, sustainability and community-led decision making.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (3)
fluid9
data-management8
realtime7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SebastianKersten/Mimoto
Dec 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 releases, 1017 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 3 months
realtimedata-managementmicroframeworkfluidrealtime-data
TheSocialCode/CopyPaste.me
Dec 2019 - May 2022
Frictionless sharing between devices
Contributions:277 commits, 15 PRs, 224 pushes in 2 years 5 months
frictionlesssharing
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