Marcus Carstens

Marcus Carstens

VP of Product

Marcus is the VP of Product at Waveform, where his team runs Waveform Internet, builds the company's 5G antennas and accessories, manages the third-party products it sells, develops services like plug-and-play private 5G, and writes the documentation that supports it all. He came to connectivity from an unlikely direction, with a degree in biodiversity and ecology, which turns out to be good training for making sense of messy, interconnected systems. He spends most of his time on the parts of a product people feel but rarely think about: whether the connection holds, whether the setup is easy, whether the whole experience earns trust. His approach is craft-first, built on a stubborn belief that getting the small things right is what keeps customers around.

Fun fact: Off the clock, Marcus is a master falconer who tracks his birds by radio telemetry. Signal loss gets a lot more literal when the thing out of range is a hawk.

Expertise

5G Internet Multi-WAN Networking Network Reliability Cellular Connectivity Private Cellular Networks (CBRS) Product Strategy

Education

Stellenbosch University

BSc Honours, Biodiversity and Ecology | 2012 - 2016