Karsten is an original founder of the company and is a co-author of the company’s core patent. He is the designer and programmer for the MIKOS AI processing engine and creator of the MICA language which it interprets.  As Chief Architect, he reviews and approves the work of all members of the technical team.

Prior to beginning full-time employment with New Sapience, he worked in the IT departments first at Duke and then the University of North Carolina where he designed and implemented the next generation of provisioning and de-provisioning, a campus wide single sign-on identity management system, and many other aspects of the university IT infrastructure.

Karsten is fluent or conversant in 4 Human and 13 Computer languages.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science; second major in Russian, Duke University, May 2001