About Luka Karsten
German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Russian
Fluent
Experience
- FreelancingAI Trainer & Technical ConsultantDIGITAL AND ITFebruary 2024 - Today (2 years and 4 months)Warsaw, Poland▸ Training: Hands-on workshops on AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, and workflow automation. Commissioned by Bots & People (corporate AI training agency). Course creator for Code First Girls (3-month agentic AI curriculum). Speaker at Nomad Summit Chiang Mai 2025.▸ Consulting & building: Three production systems live — custom machine translation (40–60% improvement in post-editing time), open-source scheduling platform (99.9% uptime), video Q&A tool with timestamp citations. Help companies identify where AI removes real bottlenecks and separate viable use cases from expensive experiments.
- The Happy Beavers (Marketing Agency)CTO & Co-FounderDIGITAL AND ITApril 2018 - December 2024 (6 years and 8 months)Tallinn, EstoniaCo-founded agency and built automation infrastructure that scaled operations from 3 to 160 people.▸ 80% reduction in manual processes: Designed and coded complete automation infrastructure from scratch—workflow automation, API integrations, custom tools for content production, client management, and freelancer coordination▸ Scaled to 150+ freelancers with core team of 11: Built systems that multiplied team capacity. Agency operated successfully for 7 years before strategic closure in late 2024
- uptain GmbH (German Startup)Technical Account Manager & Integration SpecialistDIGITAL AND ITAugust 2017 - March 2018 (7 months)Hamburg, GermanyBridged sales and engineering for e-commerce SaaS platform.▸ Exceeded KPIs by 150% while handling complex technical integrations and API implementations. Led client onboarding from sales to successful technical integration, translating between client needs and engineering constraints.
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Education
- M.A. in Corporate Management & EconomicsZeppelin University2015
- B.Sc. in PsychologyUniversität Osnabrück2012