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Karsten Wade
Leadership

Karsten Wade

Chief Technical Officer

A community architect of free and open-source software with nearly 30 years in IT. Karsten spent 21 years at Red Hat, largely as a community architect, and is a longtime Fedora contributor and CentOS Project board member.

Experience
  1. Community Architect
    Red Hat

    2001 to 2023; stewardship of Fedora and the wider open-source ecosystem.

  2. Founder
    Open Community Architecture Group

    Consulting on open-source community strategy and the "Open Source Way".

  3. Board Member
    CentOS Project
  4. Contributor
    Fedora Project
Focus areas
Open-source strategyCommunity architectureDeveloper relationsTechnical stewardshipPlatform engineering

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