KarstenSamaschke

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Karsten Samaschke

Independent perspectives from a serial entrepreneur, architect, educator, and technology enabler, connecting systems, strategy, sovereignty, and business value.

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Digital Public Infrastructure: Government Clouds Based on Open Source

Karsten Samaschke and Kurt Garloff examine how open source can underpin trustworthy government cloud infrastructure.

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Know what leaves your repo

AI coding agents are useful, but once they can read a repo, run commands, see stack traces, and send context to a model, they become part of the data path.

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Technology is never only technical.

AI-native and cloud-native systems change more than architecture. Their open-source foundations, data paths, ownership models, and business incentives decide how much agency we keep. I examine those connections without vendor theatre.

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Speaking about infrastructure that matters.

Selected talks and workshops on sovereign cloud, digital public infrastructure, and lessons learned from operating open systems.

Sovereign Cloud Capacity Program · Upcoming workshop · Landau / Pfalz

SOVCAP Workshop: Capacity Building on Cloud Computing

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Open Sovereign Cloud Day · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe · Amsterdam

Running Sovereign Cloud Stack Cluster for International Telecommunication Union: Lessons Learned

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ALASCA Summit 2025 · Dresden

Digital Public Infrastructure: Government Clouds Based on Open Source

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ALASCA Summit 2025 · with Martin Pilka · Dresden

CAPI vs. ClusterStacks: The Better Is the Enemy of the Good

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5th World ESG Summit · Riyadh

ESG 2.0: ESG, AI, and the Journey to Profitability and Success

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About

Built from practice, not sidelines.

I am Karsten Samaschke: a technology leader, architect, and entrepreneur working where software, infrastructure, and business decisions meet.

  • Technical leadership and product strategy
  • Cloud-native and open-source systems
  • AI adoption with privacy and control in view
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