Carsten Flensburg is a System iNEWS technical editor and has been a System i programmer since 1992. His focus areas are modular system design, API programming, system integration, and communication. Carsten currently works as a System i application development manager for a European vacation rental company called Novasol, which is a part of the U.S.–based Wyndham Worldwide Corporation.

Carsten's first experiences with System iNEWS date back to the early 1990s, when he became a fan of Paul Conte's thought-provoking articles. He feels that Paul's articles provided a programmer's job with some very unexpected, but inspiring, objectives. More recently, the introduction of ILE and RPG IV has opened up a new world of opportunities and programming concepts that fascinate Carsten and have—at long last—made him realize what Paul was talking about back then.

Carsten lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with his wife, Dorthe, and his two children, Julian and Emilie.